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A GUIDE
TO THE
Third and Fourth
Egyptian Rooms.
Predynastic Antiquities,
Mummied Birds and Animals, Portrait Statues, Figures of Gods, Tools,
Implements and Weapons, Scarabs, Amulets, Jewellery, and
other Objects connected with the Funeral Rites
of the Ancient Egyptians.
WITH 8 PLATES AND 131 ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT.
PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE TRUSTEES.
1904.
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A GUIDE
TO THE
THIRD AND FOURTH EGYPTIAN ROOMS.
BRITISH MUSEUM.
A GUIDE
r'l^w
TO THE
Third and Fourth
Egyptian Rooms.
Predynastic Antiquities,
Mummied Birds and Animals, Portrait Statues, Figures of Gods, Tools,
Implements and Weapons, Scarabs, Amulets, Jewellery, and
other Objects connected with the Funeral Rites
of the Ancient Egyptians.
WITH 8 PLATES AND 131 ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT.
PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE TRUSTEES.
1904.
[All rights reserved.}
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HARRISON AND SONS,
PRINTERS IN ORDINARY TO HIS MAJESTY,
ST. MARTIN'S I.ANE, LONDON.
This Guide contains a description of the pre-
dynastic and archaic antiquities, portrait statues,
and figures of the gods, tools, implements and
weapons, scarabs, amulets, jewellery, porcelain
objects of all kinds, furniture, and other miscel-
laneous objects connected with the Funeral Rites
of the Ancient Egyptians, dating from B.C. 4500
to a.d. 250.
With the view of making the important and
comprehensive collection of scarabs exhibited in the
Fourth Egyptian Room more useful to collectors,
for purposes of comparison and verification, the
cartouches containing the names and prenomens of
all the principal kings who are commemorated on
scarabs have been given in hieroglyphic type,
together with transliterations into English letters.
The visitor should note that the descriptions
are numbered according to the numbers painted in
red on the top left-hand corners of the labels and
plinths.
In the preparation of this Guide I have been
helped by Mr. H. R. Hall, M.A., Assistant in the
Department.
E. A. WALLIS BUDGE.
Department of Egyptian and Assyrian
Antiquities, British Museum,
Junz u, 1904.
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LIST OF PLATES
AND
ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT.
I.— PLATES.
i. Coffin and mummy of the Christian period, about
a.d. 400 ........ 3
2. Fowling scene . . . . . . . . 37
3. Inspection and counting of cattle .... 38
4. Inspection and counting of geese .... 38
5. Egyptian toys ........ 180
6. Diorite, breccia, and granite vases of the archaic
period 244
7. Alabaster vases inscribed with royal names . . 248
8. A group of vessels in polished red ware . . . 252
II.— ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT.
Axe-head of Amen-hetep II.
Axe-head of Karnes
Flint dagger in its original wooden handle
Embroidered Coptic stole fragment .
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Bronze kneeling figure of a king
Egyptian wig and wig-box
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ILLUSTRATIONS IN Till. TI-.XT.
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Iron sickle
Wooden mallet
Miscellaneous flint weapons and implements
Mummy of an Apis bull .
Mummied cats
Bronze mummied hawk case
Ivory pillow of Kua-tep .
Wooden pillow inlaid with ivory
Wooden stele of Nesui
Funeral boat .
Limestone figure of Nefer-hi
Statue of Ptah-em-sa-f-senb-tefi
Statues of Mera
Limestone head of an official
Statue of Teta-khart
Limestone kneeling figure of a priest with a stel
Figures of Urt-nefert and her husband
Portrait relief of Amen-hetep IV.
Limestone figure of a princess .
Figure of Harua, an official of Queen Amenartas
Figure of the overseer of the treasury of Amen
Portrait statue of Heru-utchat-pe-shere-Bastet
Statue of an official inscribed in demotic
Red terra-cotta sepulchral cone
Wooden hoe .....
Model of a house ....
Painted sepulchral box of Kua-tq> .
Ushabtiu box of Nesi-neb-taui .
Gods and Goddesses of Egv
The god Temu ....
The god Heru-ur (Haroeris) .
The god Heru-Behutet .
Heru-Behutet spearing a hippopotamus
The sun-god Ra ....
The god Menthu-Ra.
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The Gods and Goddesses of Memphis.
42.
Ptah ....
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Seker ....
44.
Seker as Osiris
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Ptah-Seker-Asar
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Ptah-Tanen
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Sekhet ....
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Nefer-Atmu (or, Nefer-Tem)
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I-em-hetep (Imouthes)
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The Gods of the Company of Osiris.
50. Shu
51. Shu supporting the sky
52. Tefnut
53- Seb
54- Nut
55- Nu.
56. Thoth
57. Maat
58. Sa .
59. Sesheta
60. The Tet .
61. Isis-Selqet
62. Isis-Hat-mehit
63. Isis-Mut .
64. Isis-Sept
65. Set
66. Nephthys
67. Heru-pa4chart (Harpocrates)
68. Anubis at the bier of Osiris
69. Mestha . "1
70. Hapi
71. Tuamutef
72. Qebhsennuf J
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I lathor, the goddess oi the dead, in the form <>l tin-
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I lathor in the form of a woman
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Eiathor in two forms, and her sistn
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Meh-urt ....
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Nehemauait ....
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Meskhenet ....
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Renenet ....
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Nekhebet ....
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Uatchet ....
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Bast
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Neith
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Nckhebet, goddess of the South
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Uatchet, goddess of the North
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Mersekert ....
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Nehebkau ....
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Urt-hekau ....
J55
89.
The hippopotamus goddess Ta-urt (Thoueris)
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The gods of the South and North Nile .
•58
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An-her .......
159
92.
The Crocodile-god Sebek
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Amen-Ra .....
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Mut
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Khonsu ....
160
96.
Khonsu-Neferdietep
160
The Gods of Elephantine.
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Khnemu ..... . . 162
98.
Satet (or, Sati) ....
163
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Bes
164
100.
Reshpu .....
165
101.
The Bull Apis ....
166
102.
The Bull Mnevis ....
166
103.
The Ram of Mendes
167
104.
The god Bennu, i.e., the Phoenix-god
168
105.
Head of Rameses II.
172
ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT.
XI
106. Harp .....
107. Sistrum ....
108. Ivory amulet of the Lady Seneb
109. Wooden spoon
1 10. Wooden spoon
in. Wooden model of a granary .
112. View of the interior of a granary
113. View of the interior of a house
114. The god Khepera
115 Scarab inscribed with the names and titles of Amen
hetep III. and Queen Thi
116. Scarab of Amen-hetep III., recording the slaughter
of 102 lions ......
117. Scarab inscribed with the names and titles of Amen
hetep III. and Queen Thi
118. Scarab of Ani ......
119. Pectoral and scarab of the Lady Pen-seneb
120. Toilet box .......
121. Red breccia bowl ......
122. Alabaster table and vessels of Atena
123. Alabaster head-rest of Atena ....
124. Red breccia bull ......
125. Group of variegated stone and glass and painted
vessels .......
126. Faience boomerang .....
127. Ushabti figure of Seti I. ....
128. Blue glazed faience bowl ....
129. Brick stamped with the prenomen of Rameses II
130. Bronze mirror and ivory and glass stibium tubes
131. Model of a woman carrying a tray of cakes .
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A GUIDE
TO THE
THIRD AND FOURTH EGYPTIAN ROOMS.
THIRD ROOM.
The collections of Egyptian antiquities exhibited in this
room are of a miscellaneous character, and the greater
number of them illustrate in a very important manner the
funeral ceremonies of the ancient Egyptians, and afford us
an idea of the contents of the tombs of the best periods
of dynastic civilization. The oldest objects here displayed
will be found in Table-Cases L and M, where is ex-
hibited a valuable collection of predynastic antiquities,
which date from the latter part of the Neolithic Period,
before B.C. 4500, and from the time of the first six dynasties.
They should be examined in connexion with the Pre-
dynastic and Archaic Egyptian antiquities exhibited on
the Landing of the North- West Staircase, and with the
magnificent group of early jars in stone of many varieties
in Wall-Cases 194-197 of the Fourth Egyptian Room. At
the west end of the Third Room are the mummies of
sacred animals and birds ; at the east end is a fine
group of funeral chests, etc., from B.C. 2600 to the Roman
Period ; on the north side are sepulchral boats, painted
and inscribed wooden stelae, and a very fine collection of
B
.? THIRD EGYPTIAN ROOM— SUMMARY 01 CONTENTS,
typical portrait figures of Egyptian kings, officials, priests,
etc., from B.C. 4OOO to A.D. IOOj and on the south side is,
perhaps, the largest and most representative collection of
figures of Egyptian gods in the world. A good series of
weapons, tools, and implements of various kinds is to be
seen in Table-Cases B and K, and an extremely interest-
ing group of frescoes from Egyptian tombs of the XVI I Itli
dynasty is in Cases D and I. The art of writing in all
its branches is illustrated by the palettes, ink-wells, coloured
earths, pens, papyrus, and the drafts of literary composi-
tions in the hieratic character in Table-Case C. Fine
specimens of Egyptian linen work, which date from the
first portion of the XVIIlth dynasty, about B.C. 1700, and
come down to so late a period as A.D. 900, are exhibited in
Table-Cases E and J, and the rare example of silk-work
(No. 25) in Table-Case J is of special interest. In Table-
Case H are selections from the figures of gods in gold,
silver, and bronze, and several specimens of fine metal work
inlaid in gold ; with these are exhibited figures of Egyptian
sacred animals, e.g., an Apis Bull (No. 37,448), with his
characteristic marks, and a rock-crystal figure of the
hippopotamus goddess Thoueris (No. 24,395), which date
from the Xllth dynasty, or earlier. Of the series of
glass vessels the most important are those of Thothmes
III. (Xo. 4762) and Amen-hetep II. (No. 36,34? . The
Egyptian wig and the reed-case in which it was found are
objects of great rarity. Of interest too are the funeral
offerings, which consist of pomegranates, figs, dates, and
raisins, crushed wheat, or barley, bread cakes, ornamental
pastry {e.g., a cake in the form of a crocodile's head, No.
5362), and a duck, and bread cakes (No. 5340), and reed
stand. On Cases F and G is mounted a series of
reproductions of all the important vignettes of the Book of
the Dead as found in the Papyrus of Ani. This work
was written at Thebes, about B.C. 1450, for the scribe Ani,
who held the important office of Registrar for the offerings
made at Thebes and Abydos, and is the fullest and finest
illustrated funeral papyrus known. The first section of the
papyrus was probably written by Ani himself. One of its
most interesting chapters, the 175th, of which only one other
copy, and that imperfect, is extant, is important because it
Plate I.
Coffin and mummy of the Christian period, about A.D. 400.
[No. 24,800.] (See page 3.)
GR^CO-ROMAN MUMMIES. 3
contains a definite assertion concerning the Egyptian belief
in immortality. In answer to the question asked by Ani,
" How long shall I live"? the god Thoth replies : " It hath
been decreed that thou shalt live for millions of millions of
years, a life of millions of years."
CASE GG. I. Roughly made coffin with mummy of
Khensu-Tehuti 1 a >^ ^ , the son of Saipem (?), a
singer, enclosed in a painted cartonnage case. On the out-
side of the coffin are figures of the goddess Nut and the
four children of Horus. About A.D. 200. [No. 6699.]
No. 2. Wooden coffin with vaulted cover containing
the mummies of a Greek or Roman lady and her three
children. On one end of the coffin is represented the
mummy of the deceased lying upon its bier in a boat,
protected by Isis and Nephthys ; and at the other end the
deceased and her soul offer incense to Osiris in the presence
of Isis and Nephthys. About A.D. 250. [No. 29,783.]
CASE HH. i, 2. Two mummies of Greek or Roman
ladies wrapped in linen shrouds ornamented with portraits
of the deceased, and with rough copies of ancient Egyptian
symbols and figures of the gods. About A.D. 100. From
Thebes. [Nos. 6709, 6712.]
No. 3. Rectangular wooden coffin containing a mummy
with gilded and painted cartonnage case ; the swathing is
in a late style. This mummy is the most modern in the
Collection. About A.D. 400. From Upper Egypt. (See
Plate I.) [No. 24,800.]
TABLE-CASE A. Here is exhibited a large collec-
tion of sandals and shoes which belong to the period that
falls between B.C. 1600 and A.D. 200. The greater number
of them are made of papyrus, of various degrees of thick-
ness, a few are of wood, and the remainder are made of
leather of various kinds, chiefly gazelle skin. The leather
sandals and shoes are of the Roman and Coptic periods.
The most interesting are : —
No. 1. Papyrus sandals, with painted toes, for
ceremonial use. [No. 36,201.]
B 2
4 THIRD EGYPTIAN ROOM— TABLE-CASE A.
No. ! Pair of large papyrus sandals with side Haps:
the toes arc painted, and, curving backwards, are fastened
to the latchets. [No. 4464.]
No. 7. Pair of papyrus sandals, elaborately plaited,
with painted toes and thick latchets. From Memphis
(Sakkara?). Presented by Dr. Gideon Mantcll, 1843.
[No. 4456.I
Nos. 9, 10. Two pairs of thick, elaborately plaited,
sandals with rounded toes ; in No. 9, part of the papyrus
toe strap still remains. [Nos. 4424, 4425, 4434, 4435.]
No. 16. Thickly plaited papyrus sandal, with painted
turned up toe, and latchet and the strap complete. Well
preserved. [No. 4451.]
No. 18. Pair of finely plaited papyrus sandals, with
thick padding ; on the upper part the plaiting is horizontal,
and on the lower part cross-hatched. [Nos. 4420, 4421.]
No. 21. Sandal made of palm fibre. Presented by the
Trustees of the Christy Collection, 1865. [No. 36,209.]
No. 22. Papyrus sandal, with flat heel attached.
[No. 4446.]
No. 28. Papyrus sandal for a baby. [No. 22,000.]
No. 29. Pair of child's sandals, with latchets.
[No. 36,217.]
No. 32. Pair of sandals, made to the shape of the foot,
carefully woven of a fine fibrous material ; they were held
on the feet by means of a double cord, which was fastened
in the sandals at a point near the joining" of the first and
second toes, and passed round the ankles. Presented by
Dr. Gideon Mantcll, 1843. [Nos- 44l8» 44 1 9-]
No. 39. Pair of red and green leather sandals, with
painted toes. They were kept on the feet by means of a
strap which passed over the instep, and was fastened by
the heel. XlXth dynast}-. | Nos. 4397, 4398.]
No. 41. Red and green leather sandal for the left foot,
with a flat covering for the instep, ornamented with green
leather hollow work. [No. 36,200.]
No. 42. Heavy leather boot, of a late period.
[No. 4415.]
PAPYRUS AND LEATHER SANDALS, SHOES, ETC. 5
No. 43. Pair of white leather sandals, with tooled
ornamentation. [Nos. 4377, 4378.]
Nos. 45, 46. Pair of wooden sandals, painted with
dotted patterns in black on a white ground.
[Nos. 12,551, etc.]
No. 49. Pair of model sandals, which formed a sepul-
chral offering made in a tomb. [Nos. 36,215, 36,216.]
No. 57. Pair of leather shoes for a child, with fore-
straps. From Thebes. Greek period.
[Nos. 4402, 4403.]
No. 65. Leather shoes, with embroidered ornament in
the form of a rosette over the toe. Coptic period.
[No. 4416.]
No. 6/. Pair of leather slippers, with gilded leathern
tongued ornamentation over the toes. Late Roman period.
[No. 20,942.]
No. 68. Pair of black leather shoes, with turned-up
sides, ornamented with gilded leather. At the toes are
tassels formed of various coloured silks. [No. 32,604.]
No. "J2>- ^air °f red and green leather sandals for a
child. [No. 4386.]
No. 84. Pair of fine, green leather shoes, for a child.
From Thebes. Greek period. [Nos. 4408, 4409.]
No. 85. Fragment of a white leather sandal, with an
inscription in hieratic stating that it was made for a deceased
person called Iuf. XVIIIth dynasty. [No. 36,196.]
No. 91. Part of a leather sandal, stuffed with hair.
From Thebes. Presented by Sir J. G. Wilkinson, 1835.
[No. 4394.]
No. 92. Large leather garter. Roman period.
[No. 21,719.]
TABLE-CASE B. In this case are grouped several
series of Egyptian arms and weapons ; the earliest date
from the time of the Illrd or IVth dynasty, and the latest
belong to the Roman period. The most important are : —
Nos. 1-3. Iron axe-heads of uncertain date.
[Nos. 36,288, 36,775, 20,762.]
6 I'HIRD EGYPTIAN ROOM -TABLE-CASE B.
No. 4. Bronze axe-head, incised with the figure of a
boat, an inscription of two lines in hieroglyphics, and the
cartouche of Amen-hetep II. (j" . v? 1 1- XVIIIth
dynasty. — [No. 37,447-]
No. 5. Bronze axe-head inscribed with the cartouches of
Karnes, a kin-- of the XVI Ith dynasty. Presented by the
Rev. W. J. Sparrow-Simpson, M.A., 1 X75. j Nos. 36,772.]
No. .57,447-
No. 36.772.
No. 6. Cast of a similar axe-head of Karnes, in the
possession of Sir John Evans, K.C.B. [No. 36,810.]
Xos. 7-18. A collection of fine bronze axe-heads of
various types and periods. [Nos. 6050, etc.]
Nos. 19, 20. Two models of axe-heads in bronze.
[Nos. 6073, 6074.]
Nos. 21, 22. Two bronze heads of battle-axes.
[Nos. 6051, 30,087.]
No. 26. Bronze halbert blade. [No. 27,493.]
Nos. 27-29. Three large bronze ceremonial halbert
blades, of crescent shape, riveted on to a bronze shaft,
in which wooden handles were fitted. A portion of the
handle may be seen in No. 29.
[Nos. 36,776, 32,204, 32,203.]
No. 30. Bronze axe-head fastened to the original
handle by thongs of gazelle skin ; on the blade is the
prenomen of Thothmes III. fot^h £§1.
[No. 16,770.]
BRONZE WEAPONS, AXES, DAGGERS, ETC.
7
No. 33.
Nos. 31, 32. Two bronze models of axe-heads, fastened
into original wooden handles by means of strips of linen.
[Nos. 6058, 6059.]
Painted wooden model of an axe.
[No. 6069.]
No. 34. Bronze axe-head, set in its
original wooden handle; in the hollow-
work of the axe-head is the figure of a
horseman riding over a plain. The leather
thongs are covered with bitumen.
[No. 36,766.]
No. 35. Hollow- work bronze axe-
head ; scene, two bulls fighting.
[No. 36,764.]
No. 36. Cast of a hollow-work axe-
head ; scene, a lion chasing a gazelle.
The original is in the possession of the
Marquess of Bath. [No. 36,811.]
No. 37. Flint dagger, in its original
wooden handle, with fragments of its
original leather sheath. [No. 22,816.]
Nos. 38, 39. Two bronze ribbed
dagger-blades. [Nos. 36,308, 30,086.]
Nos. 40 and 43. Two bronze dagger
blades, of spatular shape. On No. 43 is
incised a scene with a bird flying over
plants. [Nos. 32,211, 27,392.]
Nos. 41, 42. Two bronze ribbed
spear-heads, with tangs.
[Nos. 36,306, 36,307.]
No. 44. Bronze dagger, set in an ivory handle made in
the form of a papyrus sceptre. [No. 30,734.]
No. 45. Bronze dagger, set in a handle which is gold
plated, and has a band of spiral decorations. XVI Ith or
XVI I Ith dynasty. [No. 36,769.]
Nos. 46, 47. Bronze dagger-blades or swords, with
hollow-work handles, perforated to receive the rivets of the
ivory or gold plates which were fastened to them.
[Nos. 26,261, 34,-63-]
No. 22,816.
8 THIRD EGYPT] \N ROOM- T \ni.l- C VSE B.
Nos. 48, 49. Two bronze daggers, with handles of
similar workmanship; in No. 49 the ivory inlay is wanting
from the handle. [ N'os. 5425, 30,463.]
Nos. 50 54. Five bronze daggers, the handles of which
were inlaid and riveted ; the ends terminate in crescent-
shaped pieces of ivory. XVIIIth dynasty.
[Nos. 30,732, etc.]
No. 55. Model wooden dagger. [No. 15,785.]
No. 56. Large wooden box containing a number of
reed arrows, having square flint heads. From Kurna.
Presented by the late Sir A. Wollaston Franks, K.C.B.,
1887.
[No. 20,648.]
No. 57. Wooden scabbard for a dagger.
[No. 5428.]
No. 58. Green stone dagger, fashioned in modern
times from a predynastic green schist or slate object.
[No. 30,090.]
Nos. 60, 61. Two heavy stone objects; polishers.
FYom Philae. [Nos. 36,299, 36,300.]
No. 62. Portion of a bronze sword-blade.
[No. 36,768.]
No. 63. Iron spear-head. [No. 36,765.]
Nos. 64, 65. Bronze ferrules, split and perforated.
[Nos. 29,187, 29,188.]
Nos. 66-76. Bronze spear and javelin-heads.
[Nos. 5421, etc.]
No. yy. Bronze spear-head. [No. 36,822.]
Nos. 78, yg. Iron socketed spear-heads.
[Nos. 5423, 23,943.]
No. 80. Iron javelin-head, tanged. [No. 20,905.]
Nos. 81-94. Bronze arrow-head, tanged, some having
barbs. [Nos. 5457, etc.]
No. 95. Barbed and tanged arrow-head of iron.
[No. 36,803.]
Nos. 96-112. Socketed arrow-heads of bronze, of
various periods. [Nos. 36,795, etc.]
FISH-HOOKS, KNIVES, AXE-HEADS, ETC. 9
Nos. 1 19-122. Lower ends, in bronze, of ceremonial
standards. [Nos. 35,907, etc.]
Xos. 123-125. Bronze fish-hooks.
[Nos. 15,931, etc.]
Nos. 126-139. Bronze armour scales, with metal
pegs. [Nos. 21,699, etc-l
No. 140. Long bronze ferrule. [No. 32,582.]
No. 141. Copper, or bronze, sling bullet.
[No. 37,930.]
No. 142. Sickle-shaped iron knife. [No. 23,555.]
No. 144. Sickle-shaped bronze knife. [No. 24,637.]
Nos. 145-153. Bronze halbert blades. XVIIIth or
XlXth dynasty. [Nos. 32,210, etc.]
No. 154. Socketed iron adze or chisel-head.
[No. 36,289.]
Nos. 155-166. Socketed adze, axe, and chisel-heads,
in copper and bronze. [Nos. 6070, etc.]
Nos. 167-185. A fine series of flat bronze axe-heads,
many of which are perforated with several holes for the
leather lacings which attached them to wooden handles.
Of special interest is No. 166. Nos. 174, 177, 180, 183, 185
belong to the period of the Ancient Empire.
[Nos. 32,205, etc.]
No. 186. Semicircular, fiat axe-head, let into a wooden
handle and fastened at the top by a bronze bolted ferrule,
XVIIIth dynasty. [No. 30,083.]
No. 187. Bronze hollow-work ornamental axe-head.
Scene, a bird perched on a papyrus plant.
[No. 24,636.]
No. 188. A set of three model axe-heads, with ears
for insertion in wooden handles. [Nos. 15,683-15,685.]
Nos. 189, 190. Two bronze adze blades.
[Nos. 29,429, 26,430.]
No. 191. Cast of a magnificent socketed bronze
spear-head, in the possession of Sir John Evans, K.C.B.
On the blade are inscribed the name and titles of Karnes,
IO rHIRD EGYPTIAN R( H >M T \\:\ I ■ -< \-l C.
a king of the XV I Ith dynasty, about B.C. [700. Presented
by Sir John Evans, K.C.B. [No. 36,808.]
\<». \()2. \ leather strap, a portion of a soldier's
equipment. I No. 54 'I- 1
No. [93. I. rather belt, w ith embi >ssed ornamentation,
and carefully sewn. Late period. [No. 36,778.]
No. 194. Leather strap, with embossed ornamentation
and thongs. [No. 23,347.]
Nos. 195-199. Reed-arrows, with bronze heads, which
have been fastened on with strips of linen. No. 196 is
noteworthy. [Nos. 12,552, etc.]
No. 20D. A collection of reed arrows, with flint heads.
[Nos. 5433, etc.]
No. 201. A bronze kherp sceptre U , XI Ith dynasty.
1 [No. 22,842.]
No. 202. Bronze khepesh Xf- sword. [Presented by
the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1887. [No. 27,490.]
No. 203. Curved bronze scimitar. A fine specimen.
[No. 26,263.]
No. 204. Fragment of a linen cuirass of a soldier.
From Sakkara. [No. 37,124.]
No. 205. A roll of leather. [No. 5399.]
No. 207. Bronze tool or implement with a cutting
edge, having recurved ends. The handle terminates in a
goat's head. [No. 5466.]
TABLE-CASE C. In the upper portion of this
Table-Case is exhibited a long and important series of
slices of calcareous stone, and wooden boards plastered with
lime, inscribed chiefly in the hieratic character with drafts
of literary compositions, hymns, school exercises, etc.,
and with sketches made to scale of hieroglyphics, figures
of kings, gods, etc. These objects belong to various periods,
but the greater number of them date from the XVTIIth,
XlXth, and XXth dynasties, i.e., from B.C. 1600 to i;.c. 1 100,
SCHOOL-EXERCISES, DRAFTS OF LITERARY WORKS. I I
and were found in tombs at Thebes. The most noteworthy
are : —
Nos. i, 5. Coloured representations of deceased persons
adoring Mer-seker, the lady of the desert and goddess
of the tombs at Thebes. [Nos. 8508, 8510.]
No. 4. Figure in outline of a queen (Nefert-iti, wife
of Khu-en-Aten ?) nursing a child ; below is a figure of
an Asiatic slave (?), with curiously dressed hair, holding a
mirror. [No. 8506.]
No. 7. Plastered board, inscribed on both sides in
hieratic with a series of sentences, extracts, etc., from
literary works; it is perforated at one end, and was intended
to be hung up in a school as a copy from which pupils
might work. [No. 5645.]
No. 8. Slab inscribed in hieratic with directions for
building a royal tomb. [No. 5629.]
No. 10. Working scale-drawing for a bas-relief or
statue of King Thothmes III. ; on one side is a series of
trial sketches of hieroglyphics. [No. 5601.]
No. 13. Plastered board inscribed with a copy, in the
hieratic character, of a number of the rhetorical " Instruc-
tions " of Kha-kheper-Ra-senb, surnamed Ankh, a famous
author of the Xllth dynasty. This copy was made in the
XlXth dynasty. [No. 5646.]
No. 17. Slice of limestone with a figure of the god
Amen-Ra in relief ; he is called " king of the gods, lord of
heaven, prince of Thebes " ; from the Tombs of the Kings.
[No. 2.]
No. 18. Limestone slab with two figures of the god
Osiris on obverse, and portions of six lines of hieratic on
the reverse. [No. 8505.]
No. 19. Slab of limestone inscribed in hieratic with
five lines of a metrical composition ; the members of the
phrases are marked by red dots. [No. 5632.]
No. 20. Plastered board inscribed in hieratic with a
number of sentences, probably written as a school exercise.
Among the sentences occurs a series of names of persons
and countries described in the text as " copying the
12 THIRD EGYPTIAN ROOM— TABLE-CASE C.
names of Keftiu." " Keftiu" is a geographical expression
ami means " Hinder-lands," /.<-., the southern coast of Asia
Minor and the Island of Crete. This copy was made at
the end of the XVIIIth dynasty, when the Egyptians win-
in close communication with the inhabitants of the northern
Mediterranean coast. [No. 5647.]
No. 21. Slab of limestone inscribed in hieratic with a
draft of a legal document, which refers to a robber}- of
weapons from the Royal Arsenal by the Chief of the
Treasury, in the time of the XXth dynasty ; the name of
a royal tomb is given. [No. 5631.]
No. 22. Slab of limestone inscribed in hieratic with a
draft referring to the alterations which were made in the
tombs of the parents of the writer by Thothmes, governor
of the Thebaic! ; the original grant of land for the tombs
had been made by King Amen-hetep III. The draft is
dated in the seventh year of Heru-em-heb, king of Egypt,
about B.C. 1400. [No. 5624.]
No. 23. Portion of a plastered board inscribed in
hieratic with a list of persons, objects, and numbers.
[No. 29,512.]
No. 26. Model for a large relief of Rameses II., with
the royal cartouches ; on the back, in relief, is a figure of
Ketesh, a goddess of Semitic origin. This object is pro-
bably an exercise of a sculptor's pupil. [No. 308.]
No. 27. Scale model of a head for a bas-relief.
[No. 14,401.]
No. 30. Limestone fragment inscribed with a portion
of a text relating to a robbery of food. [No. 5637.]
No. 31. Slab inscribed with a portion of a text in
linear hieroglyphics, which somewhat resemble their hieratic
forms. [No. 5640.]
No. 33. Slab inscribed on both sides, in hieratic, with
a portion of a document relating to the same matter as
that referred to in No. 22. [No. 5625.]
No. 35. Limestone slab inscribed in hieratic with a
portion of a Chapter CXLII.) from the Hook of the Dead.
[No. 29,555.]
SCHOOL-EXERCISES, DRAFTS OF LITERARY WORKS. 1 3
No. 36. Limestone slab inscribed on both sides with a
text in the demotic character. [No. 29,511.]
No. 38. Limestone slab inscribed on both sides with a
list of personal properties and valuations of the same.
[No. 5633.]
No. 39. Limestone slab with the heads of two kings, a
winged lion, with the head of Bes in relief; on the reverse
are figures of the birds V^, "^^, in relief. This object is
the exercise of a sculptor. [No. 13,324.]
No. 41. Slab inscribed in hieratic with a draft of some
of the "Instructions" of Amen-em-hat I., king of Egypt,
about B.C. 2500, which were addressed to his son Usertsen.
This copy was written either under the XVIIIth or XlXth
dynasty. [No. 5638.]
No. 42. Rough slab with a hieratic draft of an inscrip-
tion ; made under the Middle Empire. [No. 5641.]
No. 43. Portion of a sepulchral stele, inscribed with
parts of two lines of hieroglyphic text, and with four lines
of demotic written in ink. [No. 5650.]
No. 45. Portion of a slab inscribed in hieratic with the
record of a series of observations of the " star of the
waters," apparently one of the thirty-six Dekans, or Zo-
diacal Stars, from the fifth day of Phamenoth to the seventh
day of Paoni,of the third year of the reign of a king whose
name is not given. XlXth dynasty (?). [No. 5635.]
No. 46. Slab inscribed in hieratic with a list of objects
and their values ; the purchase of a bull is mentioned.
[No. 5649.]
No. 47. Fragment of a vase, i.e., an ostrakon, inscribed
in hieratic with an inventory or list of objects, with their
quantities and values. [No. 5643.]
No. 48. Portion of a baked clay brick, or tablet, incised
in hieratic with a part of the text of the CLIst Chapter of
the Rook of the Dead, which mentions the god Khas (?).
[No. 29,547.]
14 THIRD EGYPTIAN ROOM— TABLE-CASE C.
No. 51. Slab Inscribed on both sides in hieratic with
copies of a number of laudatory remarks on the profession
1 >f the scribe in Egypt ; they form part of the text commonly
known as the "Hymn in praise of learning-."
[No. 29,550.]
No. 52. Slab inscribed in hieratic with the draft of a
hymn in praise of Amen-Ra, the great god of Thebes.
[No. 29,559.]
No. 55. Slab inscribed in hieratic with the draft of a
metrical composition of a religious character.
[No. 5639.]
No. 56. Slab inscribed in hieratic with part of a letter,
or memorandum, of objects delivered to the police of
western Thebes on the thirteenth of the month Paoni.
[No. 5630.]
No. 57. Slab, with rough figure of the god Amen-Ra
traced upon it in outline. [No. i.J
No. 59. Limestone fragment, with two rows of hiero-
glyphics inscribed upon it in ink. Ptolemaic period.
[No. 29,552.]
No. 60. Limestone slab inscribed on both sides in
hieratic with a list of the articles of food, etc., which
were issued for the service of the gods Ilorus, Thoth,
1 [athor, and Mut, in the reign of a king called Amen-hetep.
[No. 29,560.]
No; 61. Limestone slab inscribed in hieratic with a
draft of the orders issued by an officer of the palace of
Amen-hetep III. to Sebek-hetep, priest of Bast, or Sekhet,
relating to the offerings, or supplies, for the service of the
king's tomb. [No. 5627.]
Section 1 of this Table-Case contains a collection of
scribes' palettes of various periods. The palette is formed
of a rectangular piece of wood provided with a number of
hollows round an oval, in which the various coloured inks,
or paints, were placed. The ink or colour was traced on
the papyrus or other object by means of reed pens, which
were kept in a hollow sunk longitudinally in the other portion
PALETTES IN STONE, SLATE, WOOD, ETC. 1 5
of the palette. The most interesting of the palettes here
exhibited are : —
No. 1. Wooden palette of Ba-nefer ^"5fe? T ^ ,
a scribe of the royal granaries, and religious official, who
flourished in the reign of Pepi II., king of Egypt, about
B.C. 3200. [No. 12,782.]
No. 2. Palette inscribed with the prenomen of
Aahmes I., the first king of the XVIIIth dynasty, about
B.C. 1700, ^l^llC0^^]" [No- I2>784.]
No. t.. Wooden palette of Ra-meri a *^slIM\ , with
r O 1 El
WW\A
a mention of the scribe Tununa o\\ "ww
Jr 11 1 _>m
the deceased flourished in the reign of Thothmes IV.,
B.C. 1470. [No. 55 r 2.]
No. 4. Wooden palette of the " scribe Pa-mer-ahau, of
renewed life,"
l^j^/'f'- °n the uPPer
portion is a cartouche with the inscription, " Beautiful god,
Neb-Maat-Ra, beloved of Thoth, the lord of divine words."
The owner of the palette, we thus see, was employed in the
service of Amen-hetep III., king of Egypt, B.C. 1450.
[No. 5513.]
No. 5. Green slate palette of Amen-mes (1 ^^ (| 1, a
scribe in the service of Seti I., king of Egypt, about
B.C. 1370. On the upper part is a scene in which the
deceased is represented in the act of worshipping Osiris.
[No: 12,778.]
No. 6. Wooden palette of a scribe who lived in the
reign of Rameses II., B.C. 1330. Presented by Sir J.
G. Wilkinson. [No. 5514.]
No. 7. Wooden palette of the royal scribe of the altar
of some god ; the name of the deceased is erased.
[No. 12,786.]
l6 THIRD EGYPTIAN ROOM TABLE-CASE C.
No. [0. Steatite palette, with an inscription of the
royal scribe Sa-Amen. Modern imitation.
[No. 36,826.]
No. 11. Stone model of a palette. [No. 5525.]
No. 13. Portion of a wooden palette inscribed with a
funeral text addressed to the god Sebek, who is asked to
give the ''breath of life" to the double of the deceased,
whose name is broken away. [No. 55r^-l
Section 2.
No. 17. Green slate palette of Uaai . j](l A, inscribed
with an address to Osiris, Thoth, and Sesheta, and a prayer
for sepulchral offerings. [No. 12,779.]
No. 18. Wooden palette of the chief scribe Ptah-mes
fi H 1 4/1 > XlXth dynasty. On the lower part are a few
words in hieratic. [No. 55 1 5.]
No. 23. Fragment of a model of a palette, with hiero-
glyphics inlaid in lapis-lazuli. [No. 24,576.]
No. 28. Wooden palette, inscribed in hieratic.
[No. 5524.]
No. 30. Wooden box for a pair of small scales, with
sunk divisions in which the weights were placed. Coptic
period. [No. 26,845.]
Section 3 of this Table-case contains specimen rolls of
blank papyrus ready for writing upon, to give the visitor
an idea of the appearance of papyrus when new. By the
side of them is a sheet of modern Sicilian papyrus made
from the variety of the papyrus plant which grows at Syra-
cuse. Here, too, are exhibited specimens of clay seals,
with impressions of names in hieroglyphics upon them, for
attaching to papyri (Nos. 42-52), and also a number of
thick reed pens of the Roman period, which are identical
with those used at the present time in the East for writing
Arabic, etc., and reed cases for holding the same.
No. 53. Specimens of blue colour used in writing-;
NO. 54, shell, used as a paint pot, with traces of black-
colour still remaining ; No. 55, a group of blue-glazed
INK, PENS, INKPOTS, MUMMY-LABELS, ETC. 1 7
faience ink or paint pots, mounted on a stand. XXVIth
dynasty ; No. 56, basalt slab for grinding paint, which
was made for Tui f ^ V M ], a wife of Rameses II. ; No. 57,
basalt slab for grinding paint, with muller. Presented by
Sir J. G. Wilkinson. [Nos. 5547, etc.]
No. 58. Bronze ink pot, with chain. Roman period.
[No. 5533.]
No. 59. Bronze scribe's pen case. Roman period.
[No. 36,827.]
Nos. 60-68. Inscribed wooden tesserae, or labels for
mummies, etc. : —
No. 60. Wooden tablet, inscribed in hieratic with a
funeral text invoking the protection of ushabthi figures on
behalf of Nesi-Khonsu, the daughter of Ten-Hen-Tehuti.
XXth dynasty. [No. 16,672.]
No. 6r. Tessera with demotic inscription.
[No. 29,532.]
No. 62. Stone mummy tessera, inscribed in demotic.
[No. 29,533.]
No. 6^. Wooden mummy tessera, inscribed with the
name of Pekysis, who died aged forty-six years. On the
reverse is a figure of the god Anubis in black outline.
[No. 9895.]
No. 64. Tessera, inscribed with an account of the
payment of 70 drachmae to Tathautis and Taaibis, the
daughters of Zminis, and others. Dated the seventeenth
day of Epiph, in the thirty-first year of the reign of king
Ptolemy II. Philadelphus, B.C. 255. [No. 29,530.]
No. 65. Mummy tessera of Harpokration and
Taeouobsis. [No. 9894.]
No. 66. Mummy tessera of Theano, who died aged
sixty-four years. She died on the twenty-eighth of Payni,
in the twenty-second year of Commodus. [No. 2890]
No. 67. Mummy tessera of Senphatres, the Theban,
the son of Cleopatra. At the end are the words, " To
Tuphion," which show that the tessera was an address
label attached to the mummy, which was sent by water
from Thebes (?) to Tuphion. [No. 29,531.]
C
IS THIRD EGYPTIAN ROOM— TABLE-CASE C.
No. 68. .Mammy tessera of Heras, son of Herakleides,
the agoranomos, or " inspector of the market."
[No. 9891.]
No. 69. Three wooden tablets, covered with wax, and
inscribed in Greek (?) ; in the cover is a cavity for the
stilus. Such tablets were only used by Greeks and
Romans. [Nos. 26,801 -26,803.]
No. 70. Wooden leaf, from a similar tablet, with in-
scription. [No. 27,393.]
No. 71. Pugillaria, or wax tablets, inscribed with part
of a metrical inscription in Greek as a school exercise ;
the stilus and signet found with them are attached.
[No. 29,527.]
Nos. 72 75. Prepared boards, inscribed with school
exercises in Coptic ; chiefly of a religious character.
[No. 5986 AT.]
Nos. 76-80. Ostraka, or potsherds, inscribed in demotic.
[No. 5680 ff.]
Nos. 81-84. Ostraka, with bilingual inscriptions in
Greek and demotic, containing receipts, or acquittances,
for payments of taxes, and dating from the Ptolemaic
period. The most interesting (No. 83) is a receipt for the
payment into the office of Coptos of moneys due for the
" apomoira," or tax on vines, and " eparourion," or land tax.
2nd century B.C. [Nos. 12,623, etc.]
No. 85. Receipt for money paid by Aristoteles on the
sixteenth of Pakhanes fPachons), in the thirteenth year of
the reign of a king. 4th-3rd century B.C. [No. 25,530.]
No. 86. Receipt for the fish tax of the thirty-first year
of Ptolemy Philadelphus. B.C. 255. [No. 12,634.]
No. 87. Ostrakon, inscribed with a school exercise,
consisting of lines 105-117, and 128-139 of the Phcenissae
of Euripides. 2nd century B.C. [No. 18,711.]
No. 88. Receipts for five ardebs of corn, paid by Bion
to the landowners Herakleides and his brethren as rent.
Dated in the fortieth year of Ptolemy IX. B.C. 130. From
Thebes. [No. 25,910.]
LETTERS AND RECEIPTS IN GREEK AND DEMOTIC. 1 9
Xo. 89. Receipt for taxes paid to the office at Coptos
by Paniskos. 2nd century B.C. [No. 29,691.]
No. 90. Ostrakon, inscribed with a list of beginnings of
epigrams. 2nd century B.C. [No. 25,736.]
Nos. 91, 92. Ostraka, inscribed with lists of names and
amounts in uncial characters. 1st century A.D.
[Nos. 26,011, 31,631.]
No. 93. Receipt for eight drachmae of silver paid for
poll tax of the third year of Gaius, a.d. 39, by Petesoukhos,
son of Pasenis. [No. 14,116.]
No. 94. Receipts for eight drachmae of silver paid by
Tyrannos, the blacksmith, to Rufonius, as palm tax.
Dated in the fifteenth year of the reign of Claudius, a.d. 54.
[No. 5828.]
No. 95. Receipt for taxes paid by Psametis, son of
Senpsaeris, to Sakhomneus and his partners. Dated in the
seventh year of Nero, a.d. 60. [No. 18,719.]
No. 96. Receipt for poll tax paid by Phenophis, son of
Pakhompauonnophis, in the sixth year of Vespasian,
A.D. 74. Signed by Melanthis. [No. 14,041.]
No. 97. Receipt for taxes paid in the third year of
Titus, a.d. 81. From Thebes. [No. 19,464.]
No. 98. Letter from Sabinus to Ptolemaios (?) con-
cerning the arrival of a large boat at Philae. From
Dakkeh. [No. 14,004.]
No. 99. Receipt for port dues paid by Harpaesis,
the goose-herd, to Antonius Malchaeus, the harbour master
of Syene, from the thirtieth of Khoiak to the thirtieth of
Pharmouthi, in the seventeenth year of Trajan, a.d. 114.
[No. 5970.]
No. 100. Letter from Salutarius to Panokh, informing
him that he has ordered Paesis to send him some drugs.
From Elephantine. [No. 14,186.]
No. 101. Receipt for twenty drachmae and two obols,
paid by Panubdis, son of Petorzmethes, to Herakleides
and Isidoros, farmers of the taxes of the Holy Gate at
C 2
20 THIRD EGYPTIAN ROOM — TABLE-CASE C.
Syene, on the tenth Mesore. Dated in the fourth year of
Antoninus, \. D. i.ji. The above sum was paid for the
kheironaxiotty or "trade tax." From Elephantine.
[No. 5801.]
No. 102. Receipts for the payment of ten drachma,
seven obols, for the poll tax, paid by the same person to
the same tax-farmers in the following year. [No. 5802. ]
No. 103. Receipt for the palm tax paid by Petorz-
methes to Phanophis, the tax-gatherer of Elephantine, in
the nineteenth year of Antoninus, A.D. 155.
[No. 5813.]
No. 104. Receipt, signed by Julius Fronto, in the third
year of Pertinax, a.d. 195. [No. 14,022.]
No. 105. Memorandum, or list of names of persons.
4th or 5th century A.D.
No. 106. List of moneys due to Bcsodora, Maria,
Senemout, and Thatrea, on the twelfth day of Thoth,
twenty-first day of Tybi, sixteenth day of Tybi, and tenth
day of Mecheir respectively, of the sixth year of an Indic-
tion. 4th or 5th century A.D. [No. 19,945.]
No. 108. Model of a man made of wax, papyrus, and
hair, which was intended to be burned slowly in a fire in
order to produce some evil effect upon the person whom it
represented, or to provoke his love for the man or woman
who had it made. The papyrus inside figures of this class
is usually inscribed with a spell or charm in which the
name of the person whom it is sought to influence is duly
mentioned ; and it was believed by those who dealt in
" black magic," both in Egypt and elsewhere, that if the
figure was slowly burned in a fire whilst the curse or spell
was recited in a certain tone and manner, either by a
professional magician or by a private individual, under
certain circumstances an irresistible effect was produced.
The use of magical wax figures is often referred to in
Egyptian literature, but the present example appears to be
one of the first which has been recovered from Egypt. It
was found at Akhmim. [No. 37,918.]
FRESCOES FROM THE WALLS OF TOMBS. 21
STANDARD-CASE D. Contains a series of frescoes
from Egyptian tombs of the XVTIIth dynasty from
Thebes. The scenes are painted upon a thin layer of
plaster laid upon a backing of coarse mortar which covers
the inequalites of the surface of the walls of the tomb.
The scenes usually depicted on the tombs of the period are
of two classes, and represent either the reception of envoys
and tribute for the king by the deceased officials, or agri-
cultural operations on their estates. Besides these we
always find pictures of the deceased and his wife seated
with tables of offerings before them. The tombs of this
class were highly decorated with frescoes painted in bright
colours, and the roofs were generally ornamented with
designs of a geometrical or floral character.
No. i. Fresco from the tomb of Sebek-hetep at Shekh
'Abd al-Kurna at Thebes. This scene represents the
presentation of tribute by Semitic envoys from Rethennu,
or Northern Syria, who offer vessels of gold, silver and
bronze ; the vessels are of Egyptian type, and were probably
of Phoenician workmanship. The last envoy in the upper
register brings a tusk of ivory, which is provided with a
case or cap of gold and bronze made in the form of the
head of a goddess, surmounted by a hand. The last envoy
in the lower register carries in his left hand a dish con-
taining the head and neck (protome) of an eagle in gold.
In the same register a man bears a red leather quiver on
his right arm. " [No. 37,991.]
No. 2. Painted fresco, representing a table of funeral
offerings, such as was usually placed before a man of high
rank. The inscription in the left-hand corner contains a
prayer to Ra, Seb, and the Great Company of the gods, for
funeral offerings. On the right of the altar are the remains
of a seated figure of the deceased, whose name is wanting,
and on the left was the figure of his son, " the superin-
tendent of the choir men of the god " (Amen), who made
the offerings, and was called Mes. [No. 37,985-l
No. 3. Representation of an ornamental lake, or
rectangular basin of water in a garden at Thebes, surrounded
by palms, pomegranate trees, sycamores, and choice trees
of an ornamental character. The sides of the lake are
22 THIRD EGYPTIAN ROOM STANDARD-CASED.
fringed with reeds, and lilies grow in the waters, which arc
stocked with fish and water fowl. In the upper right-hand
coiner is a woman who stands by the side of a number of
baskets of freshly gathered pomegranates and other fruit.
[No. 37.983-]
Xo. 4. Scene representing a feast. In the upper
register are seated three Egyptian gentlemen and tin ir
wives, who arc waited upon by male and female slaves,
from whom they are accepting wine, flowers, and garlands.
In the lower register are seated eight ladies, who are waited
upon by a female slave who is bringing them wine ; to the
right of this group is the first figure of a group of men, who
are being waited upon by a male slave. To the left are
two tables laden with delicacies. | No. 37,9^6.]
Xo. 5. Scene representing an Asiatic bearing tribute,
a gold bowl, filled with small silver bowls, and a long metal
vase, and driving before him two small horses. Behind
him is a woman carrying a vase in one hand and a child in
the other. [Xo. 37,987.]
Xo. 6. Scene representing the inspection of a farm
by the overseer of an estate, who examines the crops and
tastes the grain to see if it is ripe. Xext are repre-
sented two chariots, each with its pair of horses and its
charioteer. The horses in the upper register are restive,
and are being held in tightly by their driver; those in the
lower register are feeding on the leaves of a tree, whilst
their driver is resting in the chariot. [Xo. 37382.]
TABLE-CASE E. Here is a large and miscellaneous
collection of wooden weapons, sticks, stones, etc., and
tools and implements, e.g., carriers' yokes, wool-combs,
carders, spindles, spindle-whorls of wood and ivory ;
bronze needles, awls, etc., as well as a representative
collection of linen fabrics, both plain and ornamented,
with fringes and embroider}-, of various periods, from the
beginning of the XVI Ith dynasty, about B.C. 1700, to the
Byzantine period, about A.D. 600. The most important
objects are: —
No. 1. Fringed linen winding-sheet or shroud, which
belonged to a singing-woman of Oueen Aahmes-nefert-ari
INSCRIBED LINEN MUMMY SWATH1NGS. 23
( IP^*^ ]' called Te^uti"sat k-l*%*n' about
B.C. 1650. This very interesting object shows that the
Egyptians were in the habit of marking the linen of the
dead with indelible ink ; it came from the famous hiding
place of the royal mummies, Der el-Bahari.
[No. 37,105.]
No. 3. Fringed mummy bandage, with coloured
thread woven at the ends ; it measures 16 feet 10 inches in
length. [No. 6518.]
No. 4. Large, coarsely woven linen sheet, with deep
fringe. [No. 37,101.]
No. 5. Finely woven linen sheet, dated in the fourth
month of the season SHAT, of the 16th year of the reign of
a king ; it was probably intended by one of the kings of
the XX 1st dynasty for the re-dressing of the mummy of an
earlier monarch. [No. 6641.]
No. 6. Square of very finely woven linen, inscribed
with the name of Tehuti-sat. [No. 37,104.
No. 9. Portion of linen cloth, fringed, and ornamented
with bands of blue thread. Presented by A. Sussex
Millbank, Esq. [No. 6519.]
No. 10. Portion of a linen bandage, bleached by
modern process. Presented by Ch. Dodd, Esq., 1837.
[Xo. 6524.]
Nos. 11, 12. Portions of two bandages inscribed in a
character half linear hieroglyphic and half demotic, with
portions of the SaTte recension of the Book of the Dead.
Ptolemaic period. [Nos. 37,108, 6,644.]
Xo. 13. Roll of fine linen inscribed with the cartouches
of King Piankhi II.. Seneferef-Ra 5S ( o p j ^ ^ 1
3=^ QUI ( D T ^ J B-c- 7°°- At tne bottom of the line of
text is the date \ "^ ^ [No. 6640.]
Nos. 14-17. Specimens of mummy linen cloth of the
Roman period, ornamented with patterns, designs, etc., in
coloured wool. [Xos. 18,199, I2>55°, 37>io7> 18,200.]
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Nos. 18-27. A group of fragments of mummy cloths,
grave shirts, etc., many of them ornamented with figures
and designs in purple wool. These belong chiefly to the
Coptic period, A.D. 300 to
A.I). 700, and come from
the necropolis of Akhmim,
which marks the site of
Panopolis, a city which was
famous for its linen in-
dustry. [Nos. 16,665, etc.]
Nos. 28 -32. Mummy
bandages of the Ptolemaic
and Roman periods. No.
28 is ornamented with a
figure of the god Anubis ;
No. 30 has a hieroglyphic
inscription; and Nos. 31
and 32 arc specimens of
linen which were dyed
purple by the Carthamus
Tinciorius.
[Nos. 23,232, etc.]
Nos. 33-38. A cap
made of ancient glazed
faience beads, and five bags
made of wool and linen.
Coptic period, A.D. 300-700.
[Nos. 21,632, etc.]
Nos. 39-51. Specimens
of linen embroidered with
figures of saints, religious
symbols, birds, etc. ; they
were originally sewn on
mummy shirts of the Coptic
period. No. 40 is part of a
band or stole, embroider-
ed with scenes from the
life of Christ and various
saints. [No. 30,806.] Nos. 48-51 are four squares of linen
worked with coloured figures of birds (doves?). In the
30,806.
WEAVING AND CARDING IMPLEMENTS.
25
corners of two are signs of crosses within wreaths ; one has
the sign of the cross without a wreath, and the other has
the old Egyptian sign for life, -5- d)tkh, within a wreath.
These facts show that the Coptic Christians confused the
old heathen symbol SL with the Christian cross.
[Nos. 22,867-22,870, etc.]
Nos. 52-55. Hard wood carding combs. From
Akhrnim.
[Nos. 18,182, etc.]
No. 22,868.
No. 58. Carding comb of ivory, with annular orna-
ments. [No. 26,740.]
Nos. 61-102. A miscellaneous collection of bone, wood
and ivory carding and other reels, spindles, spindle-
whorls, and other implements used in weaving and carding
flax and wool, chiefly from Akhrnim, and belonging to the
Coptic period. On Nos. 73 and j6 portions of the linen
thread still remain. [Nos. 61 19, 6477, and 6480.]
No. 103. A group of bronze needles and pins, Roman
period. [Nos. 12,267, etc-]
26 THIR D KGYPTIAJ* r< >l >\i i \ ii.i i \M I
Mo, [04. Butl end ol a wooden axe handle, inscribed
with the prenomen of a king Ra-sekhem-seuatch-taui
, W| I , win- probably reigned between the X 1 1 Itli
and XVlIth dynasti* 1, aboul B.C. 2000. The greatei part
ol the handle was destroyed by fire. [No. 20,923.]
No. i"> Wooden uas sceptre t . [No. 35,900.]
Nos. 106 io8. Tw<> wooden bows, with pointed ends.
[Nos. 5429 5431.]
No. [09. Wooden club, with a thick, heavy end.
[No. 5465.]
Xos. 1 10, 1 1 1. Two wooden staves for ceremonial use,
with forked ends. I Xos. [7,184, 5481.]
Xo. 112. Portion of a sceptre, ornamented with bands
of bark coloured red, black, and yellow. | Xo. 35,903. |
Xo. I [3. Portion Oi .1 Staff inscribed will) the name OJ
its owner, Pa-Shu-men Jf<? fi ^ ° '=^ '■ '.)} I . XX 1st or
XXIInd dynasty. [No. 5489.]
Xos. 1 14 1 16. Three wooden yokes for, human
shoulders. | Nos. 35,929, etc.]
Xos. 117, ti8. Sticks or rules inscribed with the name
oi their ( >w ner, Per pa Ra 0 1 1
I Xos. 6034, 6035.]
No. ng. Stick or measure, inscribed with the name
and titles ol its owner, Bak-en-Mut 1^* V\ 4s| ',
above the inscription arc figures <»l Ptah and Amen,
[No. 24,388.]
No. [20. Round stick, with handle in the form ol a
papyrus bud, inscribed with the name of its ow ner, Bak-en-
suten-bi ^fe*c r///i Ih4^T [No. 5490.]
On the floor of the case will be found a large, miscel-
laneous collection of boomerangs, staves, wands, and
BOOK OF THE DEAD— PAPYRUS OF ANT. 2"
wooden objects which were used ceremonially. Worthy
of note are two oars, the handles of which terminate in
heads of Anubis, from funeral barges (Nos. 5505, 5506),
and the wooden crutch (No. 3593).
STANDARD-CASES F and G. On each side of
these cases arc exhibited a series of vignettes, and the
hieroglyphic texts of the accompanying chapters from the
Book of the Dead, as they appear in the Papyrus of
Ani. The Papyrus of Ani was found at Thebes ; it
measures 7S feet by 1 ft. 3 in., and is the longest known
papyrus of the Theban period ; the inscribed portion of it
is complete. It was copied by three or more scribes, and
is composed of several sections which have been neatly
joined together. The vignettes were drawn before the text
was written. The Papyrus of Ani is undated, and no facts
are given in it concerning the life of Ani, whereby it would
be possible to fix its exact place in the series of the illus-
trated papyri of the Theban period, to which it belongs.
His full titles are, "Veritable* royal scribe, scribe and
•accountant of the divine offerings of all the gods, the
governor of the granary of the lords of Abydos, scribe of
tin- divine offerings of the lords of Thebcs."t That he was
a favourite- of his king is proved by the fact that he calls
himself, "beloved of the lord of the South and North," and
he declares that his king "loves him." The name Ani
v^N, ^N clr IS an uncommon one- His wife, whose name
was Thuthu I Y\ Ipj , held the position of priestess
in the temple of Amen-Ra at Thebes. The papyrus was
written probably between B.C. 1500 1400, and contains the
following chapters : —
1. Of coming forth by da)-.
2. Of coming forth by day, and of living after death.
* /.<•., Ani actually worked ;is a scribe, and the title was not
honorary.
1
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tyyj\\ v 1 1 ,
28 THIRD EGYPTIAN ROOM -STANDARD-CASES K AND G.
6. Of making the ushabti figure work in the under-
world.
8. Of passing through Amenta, and of coming forth
by day.
(j. Of passing through the tomb, and coming forth by
day.
15A. A hymn of praise to Ra when he riseth.
151',. A hymn of praise to Osiris Unnefer.
15c A hymn of praise to Ra in rising and setting.
17. Of coming forth by day, of playing at draughts, of
sitting in the Sekh hall, and of coming forth as
a living soul.
|S. Of the gods of localities. [Two copies of this
chapter occur in the papyrus.]
22. Of giving a mouth to Osiris Ani.
23. Of opening the mouth of Osiris Ani.
24. Of bringing words of power unto Osiris Ani.
26. Of giving a heart unto Osiris Ani.
27. Of not letting the heart be taken away from Ani.
29. [Another chapter with the same title.]
29B. Of a heart of carnelian.
30B. Of not letting the heart of Osiris Ani be driven
away.
42. [Of repulsing slaughter in Suten-henen.J
43. Of not letting the head be cut off.
44. Of not dying a second time.
45. Of not suffering corruption.
46. Of not perishing, and of becoming alive.
48. Of coming forth by day against foes.
50. Of not entering in unto the block.
54. Of giving breath in the Underworld.
55. Of breathing the air, and of having power over
the water.
56. [Another chapter with the same title.]
57. Of not letting the soul be taken away.
74. Of walking with the legs, and of coming forth
upon earth.
yj. Of changing into a golden hawk.
78. Of changing into a divine hawk.
80. Of changing into the god who giveth light.
8 1 A. Of changing into a lotus.
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82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
9i
92
93
94
no
124
125
132
133
134
146
H7
151
155
156
161
175
185
186
Of changing into Ptah.
Of changing into a bennu bird (Phoenix).
Of changing into a heron.
Of changing into the soul of Temu.
Of changing into a swallow.
Of changing into the serpent Seta.
Of changing into a crocodile.
Of causing the soul to be united to the body.
Of not letting the soul of a man be led captive.
Of opening the tomb to the soul and the shadow,
and of getting power over the legs.
Of not letting a man pass to the east.
A similar chapter.
Of the Sekhet-hetepu, or Elysian Fields.
Of going to the divine chiefs of Osiris.
Of entering the Hall of Right and Truth.
A hymn of praise to Osiris.
The Negative Confession.
Of letting a man come back
earth.
A chapter to be recited on a
month.
A hymn to Ra.
Of the Pylons in the House of Osiris.
Of the Arits or Halls of the Underworld.
Scene in the mummy chamber.
Of the golden JJ amulet, Tet
Of the carnelian buckle amulet m.
to see his home on
certain day in the
Of the pillow amulet.
Of not dying a second time.
A hymn of praise to Osiris.
A hymn of praise to Hathor.*
TABLE-CASE H. In the upper portion of this case
are exhibited series of small but interesting antiquities
which consist of figures in gold, silver, electrum, bronze,
* A facsimile of the Papyrus of Ani has been published by the
Trustees of the British Museum (folio or half bound), price £2 10s. ;
also the Egyptian Text, with interlinear transliteration and translation^
a running translation, introduction, etc., half mor., 4t0., price £1 10s.
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THIRD EGYPTIAN ROOM— TABLE-CASE II.
crystal, .xud other rare stones, glass vases, bowls, bottles,
etc. which illustrate the finer Egyptian work in these
materials. Worthy of special note are: —
Nos. 14. Bronze kneeling figures of kings making
offerings, XXV 1th dynasty to the Ptolemaic period. No. 1
is from Tell-Gemayemi,
and was presented by the
Egypt Exploration Fund.
[Nos. 24,323, 36,297,
23,458, and 36,212.]
No. 5. Portion of a hol-
low-work amulet (menat)
in bronze. The goddess
represented is Hathor ; in
the oval portion is a figure
of a cow, which was the
sacred animal of this god-
dess, and above it is the
Hathor sistrum. Near
the sistrum is the preno-
men of Amen-hetep III.
0
A>
in whose
No. 36,212.
tomb the object was
found. [Xo. 20,760.]
Xo. 6. Group of gilded
bronze figures of gods.
In the centre is Isis, who
is suckling Horus ; on her
right stands Mut, and on her left Nephthys. In front are
three uraei, the middle one, which represents Uatchet,
wearing the icrcwn of Lower Egypt ^. Ptolemaic period.
[No. 34,954-]
XTo. 7. Bronze figure of the god Nefer-Atmu, who
wears a cluster of papyrus plants on his head. Roman
period. [No. 319.]
No. 8. Silver figure of the god Nefer-Atmu. XXVIth
dynasty. [No. 11,072.]
GOLD AND BRONZE FIGURES OF THE GODS. 3 1
No. 9. Bronze figure of the god Khonsu, wearing the
disk and lunar crescent and horns ; on the right of his head
is the lock of Harpocrates, symbolic of youth. The figure
is studded with gold, inlaid. XXVIth dynasty.
[No. 29,410.]
No. 10. Bronze figure of the god I-em-hetep, the
Imouthes of the Greeks, seated and holding an unfolded
roll of papyrus on his knees. Ptolemaic period.
[No. 27,357.]
No. II. Bronze figure of Amen-Ra, in the form of
Amsu or Min ; he is sometimes styled in the funeral text,
" the god of the lifted hand." The god stands on a
pedestal, which is inlaid in gold with mythological figures,
winged uraei, etc. ; beneath his feet are nine bows, signifying
the god's sovereignty over the nine great foreign nations.
Before him, inlaid in gold, is the cartouche Ankh-s-nefer-
ab-Ra f jPoJOJ. The figure was dedicated by Aba
U Vjr "^^ tne son °f Abet (I q$ jL=v, who was a scribe, and
held the ecclesiastical dignity of dm khent to the queen
whose name is mentioned above. On the sides of the
lower pedestal are figures of the Nile-god bearing trays of
offerings, the god Shu supporting the solar boat, and the
symbol of the unity of Egypt. XXVIth dynasty.
[No. 42.]
No. 12. Bronze cat with eyes and double collar inlaid
in gold. [No. 22,927.]
No. 13. The hawk of Horus, wearing the double crown,
in haematite. [No. 26,251.]
No. 14. Bronze human-headed hawk, emblematic of
the soul, wearing the solar disk. [No. 27,365.]
No. 15. Lapis-lazuli pendant in the form of a figure of
the goddess Isis suckling Horus ; on her throne is cut the
emblem of life. [No. 35,089.]
No. 16. Hinged bronze box, inlaid in gold with the
names and titles of a king of the XXVIth dynasty. The
sides were inlaid with panels of silver. On the plaque in
32 THIRD EGYPTIAN ROOM — TABLE-CASE H.
the cover the king, inlaid in bright copper, kneels in
adoration before the cow of Hathor. From Thebes.
About B.C. 550. [No. 24,639.]
No. 17. Rare bronze and silver figure of Ra-Heru-
Khuti, i.e.t Ka-Horus of the two horizons ; as typifying the
god of the morning and the evening, the figure is provided
with two hawks' heads. [No. 15,675.]
No. iS. Portion of a hollow bronze cylinder with an
outer covering of gold overwork, representing a procession
of deities. [No. 27,381.]
No. 19. Gold figure of the goddess Bast, wearing
uraeus. [No. 27,734.]
No. 20. Gold figure of the goddess Mut, wearing the
double crown. Attached to the ring at the back of the
neck are two links of the chain by which it was worn.
Presented by Mrs. C. Ashley Dodd, 1900. [No. 33,888.]
No. 21. Gold figure of the god Thoth, holding the
utchat '^P\> or "symbolic eye." Bequeathed by Dr. J.
Anthony, 1895. [No. 23,426.]
No. 22. Gold figure of the moon-god Khonsu, hawk-
headed. Presented by Thomas Biddle, Esq., 1882.
[No. 38,006.]
No. 23. Electrum figure of the goddess Sati, Xllth
dynasty. From Dahshur. About B.C. 2500.
[No. 29,201.]
No. 23A. Electrum figure of a goddess, Nekhebet or
Mut(?), Xllth dynasty. From Dahshur, B.C. 2500.
[No. 29,202.]
No. 24. Gold pendant, in the form of a staff sur-
mounted by the head of the goddess Hathor. XXVIth
dynasty. [No. 26,977.]
No. 25. Gold figure of the god Ptah. XXVIth
dynasty. [No. 26,976.]
No. 26. Gold figure of the god Ra and the silver
shrine in which it was found ; XXVIth dynasty. From
Tell Defna (Tahpanhes, or Daphnai). Presented by the
Egypt Exploration Fund, 1886. [No. 38,005.]
FIGURES OF GODS AND SACRED ANIMALS. 33
No. 27. Green slate figure of a hippopotamus ; this
animal was sacred to Hathor. XXVIth dynasty.
[No. 24,386.]
No. 28. Lapis-lazuli ram ; this animal was sacred to
Amen-Ra, the king of the gods. [No. 24,956.]
No. 29. Bronze aegis of Ra, inlaid with gold, from the
bows of a sacred bark ; on the front, inlaid in gold, is the
cartouche [o^'O1], the prenomen of Apries, king of
Egypt, about B.C. 590. Presented by Professor Petrie,
1885. [No. 16,037.]
No. 30. Crystal figure of the Hippopotamus-goddess
Ta-urt (Thoueris), holding before her the emblem of
magical protection 9. Xllth dynasty. From Dahshur (?).
[No. 24,395.]
No. 31. Carnelian figure of Apet, the goddess of
Thebes. From Karnak. [No. 32,638.]
No. 32. Bronze shrine inscribed with the cartouches of
Nekau, a king of the XXVIth dynasty (Pharaoh Necho).
M 0P] 3£ Qr¥] • [No. 26,973.]
No. t,7,. Bronze figure of Osiris, with elaborate crown.
[No. 27,358.]
No. 34. Bronze figure of the god Osiris, wearing
plumes, and holding crook and flail, inlaid in gold ; the
god is enveloped in feather work, which is formed by the
wings of the hawk god Horus. [No. 24,718.]
No. 35. Gilded bronze figure of Osiris, with inlaid
obsidian eyes. [No. 11,117.]
No. 36. Black steatite figure of the god Ptah, gilded,
with a bearded head of white stone inserted. The inscrip-
tion on one side of the throne reads, " Give a royal offering
to the royal priest of Khafra," I/\ = 1 f \ © Q *-=-•
The style of the hieroglyphics is ancient, and the head of
the figure undoubtedly belongs to the period of the Old
Empire. This figure therefore dates, in all probability,
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from the IVtli or Vth dynasty, and Is unique. From
Memphis. [No. 35,088.]
No. 37. Bronze figure "l" Ptah, inlaid in gold, with a
feather work covering and tunic. Roman period.
[No. -i;,3<33-]
No. 38. Green stone pendant, a hawk wearing the
double crown. I No. 27,724.]
No. 39. Green stone ram-headed hawk, gilded.
[No. 27,370.]
No. 4< 1. Electrotype of an aegis of Bast, inscribed with
the names of a king and queen of the XXI Ind dynasty
(Uasarken and Teta-Bast). The original is in the Museum
of the Louvre. [No. 34,939.]
No. 41. Fine bronze figure of Osiris, with the eyes,
beard, and collar inlaid in gold ; this is the finest figun- of
the god in the collection. [No. 35,268.]
No. 42. Silver figure of the god Amen-Ra, plated with
gold. XXI Ind dynasty. [Xo. 6.]
No. 43. Bronze ape, the companion of the god Thoth,
inlaid with gold. [No. 29,414.]
No. 44. Gilded stone figure of Isis and Horus, on a
pedestal, inscribed with the cartouches of Psammetichus I. ;
it was dedicated on behalf of the royal tutor Pe-nub
r>^ rjf the son of Xekht. XXVIth dynasty.
[Xo. 23,050.]
On the other side of this Table-Case will be found a
collection of ancient Egyptian glass ; the earliest belongs
to the XVII Ith dynast)-, and the latest to the Roman period.
Nos. 45 55 arc examples of the beautiful opaque, variegated
glass vases and bottles which were in use in the XVI I Ith
dynasty; Xo. 50 is inscribed with the prenomen of
Thothmes III. f© t^h gl; Nos. 57 59 are from the tomb
of Amenhetep II., Xo. 59 being a very fine specimen of a
variegated glass vessel ; Xo. 60 is a flat scarab, for funeral
purposes, in opaque blue glass ; and Xo. 61 is an opaque blue
WIG AND TOILET OBJECTS.
;s
glass head-dress from a statue of the god Bes. [The fine
Mint object (No. 30,461), inscribed with the names of the
royal scribe Tehuti-nefer and of the goddess Serqet, was
found with the glass head-dress.] The other glass vessels
here exhibited are of the well-known lacrimarium, or
"tear-bottle" type, and belong to the Roman period.
Near these are a number of fine specimens of Roman
millefiori, or " thousand-flowered " glass panels for inlaying.
Nos. 62 and 6$ are slices of obsidian, and No. 64 is a
portion of an obsidian figure of the goddess Ta-urt.
At the end of this section of the case is a group oi
interesting objects from tombs of the XVI I lth dynasty.
These consist of: — 1. A wig, probably intended for a lady
of high rank ; found at Thebes. 2. A reed box wherein
the wig was found. 3. A glass tube for stibium, or eye
Egyptian Wig. No. 2560.
Wig-box. No. 2561.
4. A wooden
paint, in the shape of a papyrus column
comb, with double row of teeth. 5. A pair of small bronze
tweezers for plucking out hair. 6. Bronze mirror, with a
handle in the form of the head of the goddess Hathor.
Behind these is a stand made of reeds, whereon are laid
offerings of food for the ka> or " double," of the deceased
D 2
36 THIRD EGYPTIAN ROOM — STANDARD-CASE II.
person, consisting of two ducks and cakes of bread.
This very interesting object dates from the period of the
XVIIIth dynasty, about B.C. 1500.
In the middle portion ol this case are exhibited speci-
mens of foods and fruits which were placed in the tombs
for the sustenance of the ka, or double, the greater number
belonging to the period of the XVIIIth dynasty. The
fruits consist of dates, <{i)m palm nuts, pomegranates, grapes,
castor-oil berries, etc., and the foods of: — 1. A terra-cotta
bowl filled with dried fish. 2. A terra-cotta bowl filled with
crushed wheat, or barley, for making into cakes. 3. A
circular reed mat, or plate, with two bread cakes. 4.
Specimens of cakes and pastry, one in the form of a
crocodile's head, and another in that of a leaf. 5. Several
fragments of bread cakes. In three glass jars are exhibited
specimens of grain, wheat, barley, etc., which may be
ancient Egyptian. It may be noted here that not
all specimens of "mummy wheat" are necessarily
ancient, for it has often happened that mummies intended
for exportation to Europe have been packed in modern
grain, which has commonly, but erroneously, been
held to be of ancient origin. Specimens of wheat,
of the antiquity of which there is no doubt, are
known, and experiments have been carried out with
these at Kcw Gardens, with the view of ascertaining
whether ancient Egyptian wheat, say 3000 years old,
would germinate or not ; in every case the experiment
made by the officials at Kew Gardens was unsuccess-
ful, and as a matter of fact it is well known to
botanists that the wheat germ dies in a very few years.
The bread baskets here exhibited are contemporaneous
with the bread and grain which are in them, and are good
specimens of reed-plaiting.
On the floor of this case are exhibited massive stone
bowls, mortars, kneading troughs, corn grinders, etc.,
belonging to the period which lies between the Xllth
dynasty and the period of the Ptolemies. The smaller pots,
with square lugs, are chiefly from foundation deposits.
Here may be noted a large red granite corn-grinder (No.
27,516), from Tell Gemayemi, presented by the Egypt
Exploration Fund, and some fine wood and stone clamps,
Plate II.
fc.
FRESCOES FROM EGYPTIAN TOMBS. 37
for binding together courses of masonry, inscribed with the
prenomen of Seti I., B.C. 1370.
STANDARD - CASE I. (Frescoes continued from
Case D.)
No. 1. Scene representing a feast (continuation of
No. 4, Case D). In the upper register are seated a number
of gentlemen with their wives, holding flowers, and drinking
wine, which is handed to them in cups by a female slave.
In the lower register is a group of female musicians, who
play on a double flute and clap their hands by way of
marking time for two dancing girls who are entertaining the
company. The lines of text above probably formed part
of a song, and consisted of invocations to various gods to
confer happiness upon the deceased and his friends.
[Xo. 37,984.]
No. 2. Figure of Amen-hetep I., King of Egypt, B.C.
1650, holding the crook and wearing the Atef crown.
[No. 37,993-]
No. 3. Figure of Queen Aahmes - nefert - ari, the
mother of Amen-hetep I., holding the flail ; her face is
painted black, to signify her apotheosis as goddess of the
necropolis of Thebes. She wears the Hathor crown.
[No. 37,994-]
No. 4. Figure of the god Osiris - Khent - Amenti.
Xos. 2-4 are from the same tomb, and belong to the same
period. [No. 37,995.]
Xo. 5. Fowling Scene from the wall of a tomb. The
deceased, accompanied by his wife and daughter, stands in
a reed canoe in a marsh filled with large papyrus reeds, and
is occupied in knocking down birds with a stick, which
is made in the form of a snake. In front of him is his
hunting cat, which has seized three birds, one with his
hind claws, one with his fore claws, and one by the wings
with his mouth. Numerous butterflies are represented, and
the lake is well stocked with fish. The line of hieroglyphics
at the back of the deceased indicates that the scene is
supposed to represent the state of felicity which he will
enjoy in^the next world. (Plate II.) [Xo. ^7,977.]
38 THIRD EGYPTIAN ROOM— STANDARD-CASE I.
No. 6. Scene representing the driving of a large herd
of cattle for stocktaking purposes by the overseer or bailiff
of;i farm belonging to the deceased. In the upper register
we sec the cattle being led before the scribe by hinds, one
of whom kneels before him and kisses his feet. In the
lower register the cattle are divided into groups of five, and
the text states that the scribe is making a detailed list of
them. The man with outstretched hand and arm is
addressing a fellow hind who is talking to the scribe, and
exhorting him to put his words clearly and quickly before
the scribe. (Plate III.) [No. 37,976.]
No. 7. Farm scene from the same tomb as No. 6,
connected with the management of the poultry yard of the
deceased. In the upper register the seated scribe is pre-
paring to make a list of the geese, which are being
marshalled before him. Below we sec a group of goose
herds with their flock, who arc making obeisance before
him, whilst one of their number places the birds in baskets.
The scribe has risen and is engaged in unrolling a new
papyrus, whereon to inscribe his list. The horizontal line
of hieroglyphics above the geese contains an exhortation
of one goose herd to another to " make haste," so that he
may bring his flock before the scribe. In front of the
scribe is a red leather sack, or bag, in which he kept his
clothes, etc., and round it is rolled the mat on which he sat.
(Plate IV.) [No. 37,978.]
No. 8. Procession of servants returning from a hunting
expedition in search of food (?) ; one carries an antelope,
and another two hares, and another bundles of corn.
[No. 37,980.]
TABLE-CASE J. In this case is exhibited a series
of pieces of linen ornamented with patterns and designs,
woven in coloured threads or worked in wools, which were
formerly attached to mummy-shirts and grave-clothes.
In the dynastic period the bandages and swathings of the
dead were not ornamented with embroidery or other
needle work, and it was not until the Ptolemaic period that
the outer coverings of mummies were decorated with
figures of gods and hieroglyphics painted in bright colours.
In the 3rd or 4th century after Christ it became the fashion
Plate III.
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Plate IV.
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ORNAMENTAL LINEN WORK. 39
to sew on to mummy shirts and shrouds squares or disks
of coloured thread or wool work, and at a later period,
squares of silk. The home of this industry was Akhmim,
or Panopolis, in Upper Egypt, a city which, according to
Strabo, was famous for its stone-workers and linen-weavers.
The specimens of linen work arranged in this case are very
fine, and illustrate the various developments of the fabric
and its ornamentation between about A.D. 300 and A.D. 900.
The most interesting pieces are : —
No. 1. Piece of linen with monochrome design in blue :
subject, a frieze filled with figures apparently intended for
Greek deities, among whom are Eros and Apollo.
[No. 21,789.]
Xo. 2. Linen fragment, with fine fringe, ornamented
with figures of animals, stag, dog, lion, etc., and a human
figure dancing and holding a cornu-copiae, or horn of
plenty. [No. 21,790.]
No. 4. Linen square with monochrome design ; subject,
Adam and Eve. [No. 21,791.]
No. 5. Linen fragment with a fringed square, having a
geometrical and floreated design, and a border formed of
figures of birds and plants within scrolls. [No. 21,795.]
No. 6. Fragment with a figure of a lion worked in
blue, red, and yellow wools. [No. 21,797.]
No. 9. Fragment with a red band, ornamented with
figures of lions and plants. [No. 18,219.]
No. 10. Square, ornamented with figures of four
animals and five medallions ; the largest, that in the
centre, contains the figure of a horseman, and each of the
corner medallions is filled with the figure of a man
kneeling. [No. 21,802.]
Xo. 11. Linen square, ornamented with a central design
of a figure of a man carrying a palm branch, and wearing
a cloak and high boots, within a border of medallions, each
of which contains the figure of an animal. [No. 17,171.]
No. 12. Linen square with design similar to that of
No. 10, but ornamented with the figure of a basket of
flowers. [No. 17,172.]
40 THIRD EGYPTIAN ROOM TABLE-CASE J.
No, i v Linen square, ornamented with a binder of
flowers in green and red upon a yellow ground; in the
centre is a figure of a youth, armed with shield and sword,
and wearing a flying cloak, worked in dark coloured
thread. [No. 17,176.]
No. 14. Circular piece of linen, worked with the figure
of a cross lying upon a crown of flowers. [ No. 17.174.]
No. 15. Linen fragment, ornamented with scenes from
the lives of the saints, elaborately worked ; in the centre is
God the Father. [No. 17,1 75.]
Nos. 11 15 were presented by the Rev. W. MacGrcgor,
M.A., 1886.
Nos. 16, 17. Circular linen ornaments, worked with
figures of birds and flowers. [Nos. 18,218, 18,231.]
No. 18. Linen, with circular ornament: St. George
slaying the dragon. In the field are angelic ministrants.
[No. 18,230.]
No. 19. Linen square, with design generally similar to
those of Nos. 10 and 12, but with baskets of fruit in the
place of animals. [No. 21,796.]
No. 20. Linen mummy-shirt, with square pectoral of
design similar to that of No. 11 ; in the centre is a male
figure dancing, surrounded by a border of medallions con-
taining flowers. [No. 21,803.]
Nos. 21-24. Linen fragments with elaborate designs,
worked in colours, of God the Father among the Seraphim,
etc. [Nos. 20,431, etc.]
No. 25. Fragment of fine yellow silk mounted upon
linen cloth, with a square of silk worked in red, blue, green,
and yellow, with two figures of Saint George slaying the
dragon. [No. 17,173.]
Presented by the Rev. W. MacGregor, M.A., 1886.
Nos. 26, 27. Two pieces of yellow silk, ornamented
with arabesque designs and Arabic inscriptions in the Kufi
character, A.D. 900. [Nos. 24,909, 24,910.]
BRONZE AND IRON TOOLS.
41
TABLE-CASE K. In this case is exhibited a very
interesting collection of workmen's tools and implements
of various periods, and ancient models of the same. These
last are chiefly specimens placed with samples of materials
used in construction, which were deposited in the founda-
tions of new buildings.
No. 1. Iron sickle blade. [No. 36,797.]
No. 2. Bronze sickle blade, serrated. Bought at
Luxor. Presented by Sir John Evans, K.C.B., 1899.
[No. 30494.]
No. 3. Iron sickle blade, much oxi-
dized. Found by Belzoni under a sphinx
at Karnak. Before the XlXth dynasty (?).
[No. 5410.]
No. 4. Iron sickle, serrated, mounted
in a wooden handle, Roman period. Pre-
sented by Sir J. G. Wilkinson, 1834.
[No. 5412.]
Nos. 5, 6. Iron chisels, No. 5, with
a ring for strengthening the handle.
[Nos. 23,064, 30,089.]
Nos. 7-13. Bronze chisels or axe-
heads, of various periods.
[Nos. 36,727, etc.]
Nos. 14-20. Bronze spatulae, of
various periods. [Nos. 20,900, etc.]
No. 21. Bronze knife, with a wooden
handle. [No. 6052.]
No. 24. Iron knife, with a horn hilt,
in leather scabbard. Byzantine period.
[No. 26,778.]
No. 29. Fragment of iron plate, found near the mouth
of one of the air passages of the Great Pyramid at Gizeh.
IVth dynasty. There is no doubt that this object is con-
temporaneous with the building of the pyramid. Presented
by Col. Howard Vyse, 1838. [No. 2433.]
No. 30. Bronze saw. [No. 30,245.]
Iron Sickle.
No. 5412.
42 THIRD EGYPTIAN ROOM — TABLE-CASE J.
No. 31. Iron knife. [No. 26,775.]
NTo. J2. Portion of a bronze trap, with lead counter-
poise. From Zakazik. Ptolemaic pericd. Presented by
(i. W. Fraser, Esq., 1893. [No. 24,899.]
No. 33. Bronze knife-saw, with a curved wooden
handle. | No. 6046.]
Nos. 34, 35. Models of bronze knives, inscribed with
the name and titles of Thothmes III. f (0 £^} gj
U *^::^- [ Nos. 6064, 6065.I
No. 56. Wooden model of a knife, inscribed with the
name and titles of Thothmes III. [ No. 17,079.]
No. 39. Stone model of a knife, inscribed with the
name of the " Sem " priest, the " great wielder of the
hammer, Ptah-mes." Pt^^^f ° |[fi- [No. 547-1
Nos. 40-52. Bronze and iron knife blades. Xo. 46 is
set in an agate handle. | Nos. 15,786, etc.]
Nos. 53, 54. Bronze fish-hooks or model harpoons.
[Nos. 20,898, 17,109.]
Nos. 55, 56. Bronze and iron spatuht.
[Nos. 5599, 20,719.]
No. 57. Bronze knife, with a handle in the form of a
goose's head and neck, and incised floral decorations on the
blade. [No. 36,6^.]
No. 58. Bronze knife of unusual shape.
[ No. 12,277.]
Nos. 62-85. Bronze sticks for the application of kohl
or stibium to the eyes, pins, borers, etc., of various periods.
[Nos. 36,732, 36.743, etc.]
Nos. 86-92. Bronze ornaments of a late period, with
figures of cats, serpents, etc. [ No. 6209, etc.]
No. 93. Portion of a stone instrument, perhaps a
cubit measure, inscribed with a dedication, lists of the
gods of nomes, and subdivisions of the cubit.
[No. S6,6s6.]
DRILLS, BORERS, POLISHERS. 43
No. 94. Wooden measure of two cubits (?), with sub-
dividing lines. [Xo. 6025.]
No. 95. Iron strigil, or skin-scraper. Roman period.
[No. 18,181.]
Xos. 96-108. Fragments of iron tools and weapons.
From Tanis. Presented by the Egypt Exploration Fund,
1885. [Nos. 37,135, etc.]
No. 109. Stone drill-holder (?). [No. 18,335.]
Nos. no, in. Limestone chisels. From Beni Hasan.
Xllth dynasty. Presented by the Egypt Exploration
Fund. [Nos. 23,149, 23,150]
No. 112. Green slate or schist polisher, made by
or for a person called Khensu, in the reign of Thothmes I.,
I Q V <>=> V^ * J[ -O-^ ^ © /WW\A /VWVSA I
[No. 30,091.]
No. 113. Green slate hone, perforated for suspension.
[No. 36,728.]
Nos. 1 14, 1 1 5. Emery hones, perforated for suspension.
From Drah abu'l Nekka. [Nos. 15,770, 15,771.]
No. 116. Stone borer, for working stone vases. Illrd
or IVth dynasty (?) From Shekh Sa'id. Presented by
N. de Garis Davies, Esq., 1902. [No. 36,266.]
Nos. 1 17-125. A group of fragments of miscellaneous
bronze ornaments. [Nos. 36,756, etc.]
No. 126. Bronze heart at the end of a chain.
[No. 25,297.]
No. 127. Bronze mortar rake. Presented by Prof.
Petrie. [No. 16,036.]
Xos. 128-148. Miscellaneous bronze nails, etc.
[Xo. 36,654, etc.]
Xo. 149. Foundation deposit, consisting of a series
of samples of building material, precious metals, porcelain ;
many of the plaques are inscribed with the names of
Psammetichus I., king of Egypt, about B.C. 650. From
Tell Defenneh (Tell Dafna), the ancient Daphnae, or
Tahpanhes. [No. 23,556.]
44 THIRD EGYPTIAN ROOM TABLE-CASE K.
No. 150. Set of foundation deposits, including models
of tools. From the N.W. coiner of a large building at
Tell Gemayemi, in the Delta. Ptolemaic period.
[No. 23,452.]
No. 151. Set of foundation deposits, many of which
are inscribed with the name and titles of Amasis II.. king
of Egypt, about B.C. 550. From Tell Nebcsha.
[No. 23,503.]
Nos. 149-15 1 were presented by the Egypt Exploration
Fund, 1886 and 1887.
Nos. 152-156. Stone polishers. [Nos. 21,907, etc.]
Nos. 157, 158. Limestone and crystal burnishers, set
in bronze. [Nos. 22,721, 22,722.]
Nos. 161-179. A set of bronze models of tools, imple-
ments, paint palettes, etc. ; they were originally gilded.
They formed part of the tomb furniture of a high official
called Atena (I ^ (I , who held the offices of smer udt and
kJier Jicb, and was " the loyal servant of the great god,"
i.e., Osiris. Vlth dynasty. [Nos. 6075, etc.]
No. 180. Bronze plate perforated with two holes, and
inscribed " Captain of the boat of Khensu." [No. 621 1.]
Nos. 181, 182. Two bronze plaques, inscribed with
the names and titles of Tirhakah, king of Egypt, about
B.C. 670. [Nos. 5310, 531 1.]
Nos. 183-194. Set of models of tools, probably from
a foundation deposit. [Nos. 15,686, etc.]
No. 195. A set of bronze models of articles of
funeral furniture, including a pair of grain bags, with
yoke, and two hoes ; they are inscribed with the name of
Heq-reshu, an official. XVI I Ith dynasty. From Abydos.
[No. 32,693.]
Nos. 198-209. A group of bronze and silver tweezers,
scrapers, etc. [Nos. 20,718, etc.]
No. 210. Bronze strainer. 1X0.20,896.]
Nos. 21 1-213. Three pointed bronze ferrules.
[No. 12,535.]
WORKMEN S TOOLS. 45
Xos. 214-229. A collection of bronze chisels set in
wooden handles ; some of these are inscribed with the
names and titles of Thothmes III., and formed part of
his funeral furniture. [Nos. 6055, etc.]
Nos. 230-248. A collection of copper, bronze, and
iron chisels, of various periods. No. 234 is a very fine
specimen. [Nos. 23,907, 36,735, etc.]
Nos. 249-254. A fine group of heavy, wooden, stone-
mason's mallets, which were left accidentally by the
workmen when excavating the tombs. XVIIIth and
XlXth dynasties. From
Thebes.
[Nos. 6028, etc.]
No. 255. Bronze
model of a hoe.
[No. 29,431.]
No. 256. Wooden
stick for working a drill.
r,, **. -, Wooden Mallet. No. 6028.
[No. 6040.]
Nos. 257, 258. Wooden models of the sepulchral tool
which was used in the mystic ceremony of " opening the
mouth " of the mummy, and was called Ur-hekau
<^3 v l 1. No. 257 was made for prince Nehi, and
A 1 1 1
No. 258 for Queen Hatshepset, the beloved of Amen.
[Nos. 15,779, 26,278.]
No. 259. Model of an adze, inscribed with the name
of Queen Hatshepset, the beloved of Amen.
[No. 26,279.]
Nos. 260, 261. Models of adzes, inscribed with the
names of Thothmes III., and forming part of his funeral
furniture. [Nos. 6060, 6061.]
No. 262. Adze, with a wooden handle. [No. 6048.]
No. 263. Massive adze, with a bronze blade, which was
fastened on by means of leather thongs. From the tomb
ofAni. XVIIIth dynasty. [No. 22,834.]
No. 264. Wooden drill socket. [No. 6041.]
No. 265. Wooden pulley. [No. 37,094.]
\6 null' El n 1 1 IAN K< lOM — TABLE-i VSE L
TABLE-CASE L. Thi contains a miscellaneous
collection of antiquities of the later Pre dynastic and
Archaic Periods, which illustrate the beginnings of
Egyptian art. The period to which they may be assigned
lies roughly between B.C. 5000 and B.C. 3S00. A large
number of the objects in this case were presented by the
Egypt Exploration bund.
Green slate objects, which were apparently used as
amulets and for ceremonial purposes : — •
Nos. i 3. Three tortoises or turtles, perforated for
suspension. No. 3 has inlaid bone eyes.
[Nos. 36<367, 23,061, 37,913-]
No. 4. Cuttle-fish, perforated for suspension.
[Xo. 24,319.]
Xo. 5. Horned animal, antelope ? [Xo. 35,049.]
Xo. 6. Object which was probably carried in pro-
cessions, or used in ceremonials, of the class of which
specimen casts are exhibited on the Landing of the Xorth-
west Staircase. The offering appears to have been laid in
the circular hollow in the centre, which has been thought
by some to be a vase for grinding paint. Above is the
figure of a victim, and below are two ostriches dancing.
[No. 32,074.]
Nos. 7, X. Rectangular slabs for grinding paint.
[Xos. 37,359, 37,273-]
No. (j. Bat with outstretched wings, perforated for
suspension. From Gebeleti. [No. 21,901.]
Xo. 10. Bear, with inlaid bone eyes, perforated.
[Xo. 29,416.]
Xo. 11. Horned object of unknown use.
[Xo. 36,366.]
Xos. 12-15. Diamond-shaped objects of unknown use.
[Xos. 32,500, 32,501, 32,502, 21,899.]
Xos. 16-20. Small objects (amulets?) of irregular
shape. [Xos. 26,730, 21,903, 23,421, 20,91 1, 21,902.]
X'o. 21. Ram, with inlaid bone eyes, perforated.
From Gebelen. [Xo. 20,910.]
PREDYNASTIC AND ARCHAIC ANTIQUITIES. 4/
No. 22. Ram, lying down, with head turned back, and
inlaid eyes ; the horns are carefully worked.
[Xo. 36,368.]
Xo. 23. Flat object for grinding paint. From Gebelen.
[Xo. 21,900.]
Xo. 24. Object used for ceremonial purposes, perforated
for suspension, and sculptured in relief with the hiero-
glyphic ^J^ . From Al-'Amrah near Abydos. This is
probably the earliest written Egyptian symbol known.
[No. 35,501.]
Xos. 25, 26. Oval objects, one end of each of which
terminates in two birds' heads. [Xos. 32,503, 23,060.]
No. 27. Stone for rubbing down the insides of stone
vases. [Xo. 37,278.]
Nos. 28-31. Variegated granite slabs for grinding
paint. [Xos. 29,673, 15,776, 36,372, 36,373-]
No. 32. Serpentine stone slab for grinding paint.
[No. 26,672.]
No. 33. Fragment of black and white quartzite stone,
carefully worked with a moulding and polished.
[Xo. 34,863.]
Xos. 34-36. Red stone and alabaster elliptically-
shaped mace-heads. Predynastic period.
[Xos. 30406, 26,957, 26,958.]
Xos. 37-42. A group of ivory figures of women or
dolls. Xos. 37 and 38 are shaved or bald. Xos. 39 and 40
have wigs, the latter having inlaid lapis-lazuli eyes. Xo. 41
has the hair arranged within a band, wears a long close-
fitting dress, and carries a child on her left shoulder.
Xo. 42 is that of a steatopygous woman, and the eyes were
inlaid. This group of figures is of great interest and
gives contemporaneous representations of the personal
characteristics of the predynastic Egyptians.
[Xos. 32,139-32,144.]
Xos. 43-47. Five spindle whorls made of limestone
and breccia. Xo. 47 is unfinished.
[Xos. 37,271, 37,272, 30,392, 30,393, 30,395.]
.|S THIRD EGYPTIAN ROOM- TABLE-CASE I..
No. 48. Green felspar circular perforated obje< t.
[No. 32,253.]
X.i. 49. Variegated green stone mace-head or celt
[No. 32,118.]
Nos. 50, 51. Two massive red breccia axe-heads,
carried, probably, on festival or ceremonial occasions.
[Xos. 30,746, 30,747.]
Nos. 52-54. Red breccia sling-stones.
[Nos. 32,119, 32,120, 32,121.]
No. 55. Red breccia mace-head, conical, and per-
forated to receive a handle. Archaic period. By the side
is exhibited a cast (No. 56) of the famous mace-head of
Sargon of Agade, in Babylonia, B.C. 3800, for purposes of
comparison. This and other instances of similarity appear
to prove an early connexion between Egypt and Babylonia.
[No. 32,089.]
No. 57. Limestone spiked mace-head, of similar
shape, augmented in relief with a representation of a snake
coiled round it, figures of hawks (?), etc. Early archaic
period, a unique object. [No. 26,247.]
Nos. 58-62. A group of limestone mace-heads, conical
in shape. [Nos. 32,090, 32,091, 21,992, 21,991, 30,394.]
Nos. 63-84. A fine collection of granite and breccia
objects ; use unknown. No. 6^ is unfinished.
[Nos. 30,390, 30,391, etc.]
No. 85. Red breccia flat axe-head, perforated for
attachment to a stick by means of a leather thong.
[No. 32,092.]
No. 86. Red breccia cone. [No. 32,122.]
No. 87. Black granite cube. [No. 15,772.]
No. 88. Green felspar cone, perforated.
[No. 37.464-]
No. 89. Portion of a green slate object, employed for
ceremonial purposes, sculptured in relief with figures of a
prisoner of war being cast out into the desert to be
devoured by lions and vultures. His hands are tied behind
PREDYNASTIC AND ARCHAIC ANTIQUITIES. 49
his back, and a weight is suspended from his neck ; the
officer who is thrusting him out wears a long fringed tunic,
ornamented with a pattern formed of ovals. Other
prisoners are lying round about and are being devoured.
On the reverse is a portion of a scene in which two giraffes
are eating the leaves of a palm tree. [No. 20,791.]
No. 9c. Two pieces of a green slate object, of the same
class as those of which casts are exhibited on the Landing
of the North-west staircase ; to these are added the cast
of a third fragment of the same object, which is preserved
in the Louvre at Paris. The scene represented is a desert
hunt, i.e., the chase of ostriches, jackals, hares, antelopes,
and lions, by warriors who are armed with double-headed
stone axes, maces, celts in wooden hafts (or boomerangs ?),
bows and arrows tipped with square flints, and spears
having; metal heads. The warriors wear feathers in their
hair and jackals' tails pendent from their waist belts. A
few are engaged in lassoing a gazelle, and the leaders of
each row of men bear a standard surmounted by a hawk.
This fact, and other considerations, suggest that the men
here represented belonged to the Heru-shemsu, or
" followers of Horus," who are so often mentioned in
hieroglyphic texts as the legendary conquerors of Egypt,
who preceded the kings of the 1st dynasty, and the emblem
of whose chief god was a hawk. At one end are two archaic
hieroglyphics, the exact meaning of which is uncertain.
This and the preceding object date from the earliest archaic
period, and were made before the time of the 1st dynasty,
that is to say, before B.C. 4400. [No. 20,790.]
Nos. 91-170. A collection of miscellaneous objects
from royal and private tombs of the first three dynasties,
chiefly from Abydos and the neighbourhood.
No. 91. Fragment of a clay jar-sealing, with the name
of Ka |_J, a predynastic king (?) [No. 35,509.]
No. 92. Part of a clay jar-sealing-, with the name of
Re, v\ <=> , a predynastic king (?). [No. 35,510.]
No. 93. Fragment of an alabaster vase, with the Horus
name of Nar-mer, one of the earliest known kings of Egypt,
in relief. [No. 32,640.]
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50 THIRD EGYPTIAN ROOM — TABLE-CASE L.
No. 94. Slate slab for grinding eye-paint (antimony,
or kohl). [No. 35,511.]
No. 95. Ivory box-lid, inscribed with the name of the
royal personage Nit-hetep. Following this name are the
37, which have been thought by some to mean
" King Sma," but it is possible that they only form a title
of Nit-hetep. [No. 35,5 12.]
No. 96. Part of an ivory box, inscribed with the name
of Aha ^\ , one of the earliest kings of Egypt, and
one who has been identified with the legendary
Mena, or ^^ Mencs, whom the later Egyptians believed
to have frfjfffj] founded the monarchy. Close by the king's
name are the signs "V =0" Bener-ab, i.e., " gracious of
heart," which have been supposed to form a proper name
of a princess, but which more probably form an epithet of
the king. [No. 35,513.]
Nos. 97, 98. Portions of ivory plaques, with incised
figures of prisoners. [Nos. 35,514, 35-5 1 5-]
Nos. 99, 100. Two rectangular ivory labels, inscribed
with hieroglyphic characters. | Nos. 35,516, 35o'7-]
No. [01. Fragments of an ebony tablet, inscribed with
the name of king Aha and archaic hieroglyphics.
[No. 35.518.]
No. 102. Fragments of similar tablet with the name
Aha(?). [No. 35,519-]
No. 103. Fragments of a red marble dish from the
tomb of Tcha "" |, an early king of the 1st dynast}-.
[No. 32,643.]
No. 104. Small alabaster vase from the tomb of Tcha,
containing traces of red paint. [No. 32,644.]
No. 105. Fragment of ivory, stained blue, and inscribed
with the name of Tcha. [No. 32, 641.]
PREDYNASTIC AND ARCHAIC ANTIQUITIES. 5 I
Nos. 106, 107. Beads of ivory and lapis-lazuli in the
form of hawk standards. [Nos. 35,527, 35,528.]
No. 108. Ivory hand and arm from a doll (?).
[No. 35,531-]
No.
1 12
sign.
No.
113
No.
114
a bull's
leg.
No.
115
Khent.
No. 109. Semicircular object of gold. Use unknown.
[No. 35,526.]
No. no. Carved ivory lion of archaic style.
[No. 35,529-]
No. in. Ebony plaque, inscribed with the name of
Khent (or Tcher (?)) fjj}] (or ^), an early king of the 1st
dynasty. The reading of the archaic sign which stands for
his name is doubtful. [No. 35,524.]
Wooden plaque, inscribed with an unknown
[No. 35,525-]
A set of ivory implements, awls, pins, etc.
[Nos. 35,534, etc.]
Foot from an ivory casket, in the shape of
[No. 35,530.]
Clay jar-sealing, with the name of king
[No. 35,607.]
No. 116. Two oval clay objects of unknown use.
[Nos. 35,532, 35,533-]
Nos 106-116 are from the tomb of Khent at Abydos.
Nos. 1 17-122. Ivory fragments with incised fluted
patterns. [Nos. 32,652, 32,653, etc.]
No. 123. Fragment of the ivory lid of a box, inscribed
with the legend " golden seal of judgment " rw*i Q, and the
name of Ten, whose personal name was Semti, and who
is to be identified with the Hesepti of the King Lists and
of the Book of the Dead. [No. 35,552.]
No. 124. Ebony tablet, inscribed with the names of
king Ten and of Hemaka, the " treasurer of Lower Egypt."
The tablet was probably made to record the events of a
year of the king's reign, e.g., a ceremonial dance before
Osiris, a festival of the god Seker, a palace ceremony, etc.
[No. 32,650.]
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52 THIRD EGYPTIAN ROOM- TABLE-I \-i: L.
No. 125. Gold button. [No. 35,553.]
No. 126. Small copper chisel. [No. 35,554.]
Nos. 128, 1 29. Fragments of alabaster vases, one
burnt. [Nos. 37,41/, 37 A&]
Nos. i 17 129 are from the tomb of Semti-Ten.
No. 130. Fragment of a felspar vase, inscribed with
the personal name of king Semti, and the llorus name of
king Atch-ab xdc "01, whose personal name was Mer-p-ba,
the Mer-ba-pen of the King Lists. [No. 32,659.]
Nos. 131, 132. Fragments of crystal vases, inscribed
with the name Mer-p-ba. [Nos. 32,665, 32,666.]
No. 133- Clay jar-sealing, inscribed with the name of
Mer-p-ba Atchab. [No. 32,660.]
Nos. 134-136. Fragments of ivory, ornamented for
inlaying. [Nos. 32,661-32,663.]
No. 137. Fragments of an alabaster vessel, inscribed
with the name of Atchab. [No. 32,667.]
Nos. 130-137 are from the tomb of Mer-p-ba.
No. 138. Jar-sealing, inscribed with the name of
Semerkha, a king of the 1st dynasty, whose personal
name was Hu (or Nekht) ; he is the Semempses of
Manetho. [No. 32,670.]
No. 139. Clay sealing, inscribed with the name of
Semerkha. [No. 32,669.]
No. 140. Ivory tablet of king Hu Semerkha, re-
cording the celebration of the festivals of Seker and Thoth
in a certain year of his reign. [No. 32,668.]
No. 141. Two fragments of stone bowls, inscribed with
the name and titles of a official of Qa,* the last king of
the 1st dynasty, whose Horus name was Sen V , the
* A cast of a stone with the name of this king upon it will be
found in Wall-Cases 7-12, on the landing of the North-west Staircase.
PREDYNASTIC AND ARCHAIC ANTIQUITIES. 53
Qebh |Y of the King Lists. The later reading, Qebh, is
due to a confusion in the hieratic signs for Qebh and Sen.
[Nos. 32,672/32,673.]
No. 142. Clay jar-sealing with a royal inscription of
the 1st dynasty. ' [No. 32,646.]
No. 143. Six fragments of blue glazed faience for
inlaying. [Nos. 35,560-35,565.
No. 144. Copper axe-head, with a perforation through
which the thong passed that fastened it to a handle.
[No. 35,574-]
Nos. 145-158. A set of copper models of weapons,
tools, implements, etc. Some are of unusual form. No. 153
is a model of an axe-head. [Nos. 35.575-35,588.]
No. 159. Variegated black and white flat marble vase,
with a lid made of a thin plate of beaten gold, fastened
round the neck of the vase with gold wire, and secured by
a seal. [No. 35,567-]
No. 160. Model of a vase in limestone, made in the
shape of a mace-head, with a similar gold cover.
[No. 35,568.]
No. 161. Flat vase of dolomite marble, with two
handles for suspension. [No. 35,566.]
Nos. 143-161 are from the tomb of king Khasekhemui-
Besh Q Y Y ( J rTr~l ] > wno is probably to be identified
with the Betchau (Manetho's Boethos) of the King Lists,
the first king of the Ilnd dynasty.
No. 162. Fragment of a stone vase, inscribed with the
name of Hetep-sekhemui =^=,yy, a king of the Ilnd
dynasty. [No. 35,559-]
No. 163. Three fragments of a green slate bowl in-
O .
scribed with the names of the kings Ra-neb and
En-neter w^ j, kings of the Ilnd dynasty.
[Nos. 35,556-35,558.]
54 THIRD EGYPTIAN ROOM — TABLE-CASE L.
No. 164. Jar-sealing inscribed with Se-Sekhem-ab
HyO, the Ilorus name of Per-ab-sen, ;i king of the Unci
dynasty. [No. 35,596.]
No. 165. Fragment of a crystalline stone vase in-
scribed with the name and titles of king Per-ab-sen
y*5R ML tPr, P'vwwv> a king of the I Ind dynasty. From
the tomb of Per-ab-sen. [No. 32,647.]
No. 166. Fragment of a stone vessel inscribed with the
name of Mer-Nit, a royal personage (?). 1st or I Ind
dynasty. [No. 32,465.]
No. 167. Fragment of a serpentine stone jar, with
ivory handle, and ornamentation in the form of rope-work.
[No. 32,648.]
No. 168. Fragment of ivory. [No. 32,649.]
Nos. 166-168 are from the tomb of Mer-Nit.
No. 169. Fragment of a slate vase inscribed with the
name of Tcheser ^17^37 W, a king of the Illrd
dynasty. [No. 32,658.]
No. 170. Fragment of the neck of an earthenware
wine jar. From the tomb of Hen-nekht, or Sa-nekht, a
king of the Illrd dynasty, at Bet Khallaf, near Girga.
[No. 37,419-]
Nos. 171-223 form a miscellaneous collection ot
antiquities belonging to the archaic period, a number of
which were presented by the Egyptian Exploration Fund
in 1903, and come from the Temple of Osiris at Abydos.
Nos. 1 71-172. Small red breccia lions of archaic style.
[Nos. 26,360, 32,488.]
No. 173. Limestone steatopygous female figure ; head
broken off, and arms folded. [No. 32,126.]
No. 174. Limestone figure of a woman, with the hair
bound in a fillet, and the arms folded. [No. 32,125.]
No. 175. Figure of similar shape in lead. Rough
workmanship. [No. 32,138.]
PREDYNASTIC AND ARCHAIC ANTIQUITIES. 55
Nos. 176-179. Squatting figures of apes in limestone
and arragonite. [Nos. 32,128-32,131.]
Nos. 180-186. Glazed faience figures of dog-headed
apes, i.e., animals sacred to Thoth.
[Nos. 37,280, 37,281, etc.]
No. 187. Stone figure of a hawk from a standard.
[No. 38,049.]
No. 188. Hawk, from a standard. The upper part of
the bird's body is made of black stone, and the lower part
of white. The eyes are inlaid with bone. [No. 30,742.]
No. 189. Yellow stone hawk ; the eyes are wanting.
[No. 32,135-]
Stone frog. [No. 32,132.]
Ivory fish, with inlaid eyes made of blue
[No. 32,137.]
Glazed faience pig. [No. 38,018.]
Head of an ox in stone. [No. 32,134.]
Head of a dog-headed ape, with inlaid ivory
[No. 32,133.]
Red terra-cotta frog. [No. 38,044.]
Red terra-cotta head of a man. The head-
dress resembles that of the early Sumerian inhabitants
of Babylonia. [No. 38,043.]
No. 197. Upper portion of an ivory figure of a king
wearing the crown of Upper Egypt, and dressed in a
heavy cloak ornamented with various designs and patterns,
among which is the mceandei'. The person represented is
an old man, with well marked features, and the head
bowed ; his cloak is caught up on his right arm, and he is
apparently walking. The workmanship of the object is
remarkably fine and delicate, and the figure is, no doubt,
an accurate portrait of the king represented. It is the
most important object of archaic Egyptian art hitherto
discovered. 1st dynasty. [No. 37,976.]
No. 198. Fragment of a large faience vase inscribed
with the Horus name of king Aha, in inlaid yellow glaze.
The name as here written shows the hawk grasping the
No.
190.
No.
191.
beads.
No.
192.
No.
193-
No.
194.
eyes.
No.
195.
No.
196.
56 THIRD EGYPTIAN ROOM — TABLE-CASE L.
shield and mace Q_/^ which form the hieroglyphic a//a,
i.e., "fighter," and well illustrates the archaic method of
writing. [No. 38,010.]
No. [99. Flat, green felspar vase, with handles over-
laid with gold. [No. 36,356.]
No. 200. Flat, dark green marble vase, of similar
shape. [No. 471 1.]
No. 201. Black stone vase, with two suspension
handles, made in the form of a hawk grasping its quarry.
Head wanting. [No. 32,250.]
No. 202. Black stone model of a vase, with perforated,
wavy handles. [No. 36,336.]
No. 203. Biack and blue glazed vase, which probably
came from the temple deposit of Aha. [N©. 38,013.]
No. 204. Fragment of a blue glazed faience fluted tile.
[No. 37,282.]
No. 205. Fragment of a blue glazed faience flower.
[No. 38,012.]
No. 206. Plaque for inlaying, with the figure of a
palm tree. [No. 38,011.]
No. 207. Glazed faience object of unknown use.
|.\o. 38,017.]
Nos. 208, 209, Rectangular blue glazed porcelain tiles,
similar to those found in the pyramid of Tchcscr, a king oi
the 1 1 Ird dynasty, at Sakkara. (See Table-Case K. Fourth
Egyptian Room.) [Nos. 38,024, 38,025.]
No. 210. Blue glazed porcelain ornament.
[No. 38,014.]
No. 211. Model vase stand, in blue glazed porcelain.
[No. 38,016.]
No. 212. Model vase, in blue glazed porcelain, on
stand. [No. 38,015.]
No. 213. A group of blue glazed porcelain beads of
various shapes. [No. 30,798.]
No. 214. Necklace of light blue and black porcelain
beads. [No. 37,283.]
PREDYNASTIC AND ARCHAIC ANTIQUITIES. $7
No. 215. A collection of unpierced round and conical
stone beads. They were found placed in rows on a layer
of clay, which was intended to serve as a necklace or
breastplate for a mummy. [Nos. 30,798, etc.]
No. 216. Three unpierced marble and chalcedony
beads of similar shape. [No. 32,702.]
No. 217. Two slate rings. [Nos. 38,051, 38,052.]
No. 218. Copper axe-head, unperforated.
[No. 37,276.]
No. 219. Copper chisel. [No. 37,277.]
No. 220. Ornamental ivory object in the form of a
victim bound for sacrifice. [No. 38,050.]
Nos. 221, 222. Two vases of polished black ware. 1st
dynasty. [Nos. 38,046, 38,047.]
No. 223. Black and white fiat diorite bowl.
[No. 38,054.]
No. 224. Diorite cup. IVth dynasty (?).
[No. 30,798.]
No. 225. Collection of baked clay objects of unknown
use ; they are probably models of offerings. IVth dynasty.
[Nos. 38,055, etc.]
No. 226. Jar-sealing, with the name of Ka-Sekhemui
(_jftft, a king of the Ilnd dynasty. [No. 38,053.]
No. 227. Jar-sealing, with the name of Men-kau-Ra
0£^ y ,, a king of the IVth dynasty. [No. 38,064.]
No. 228. Jar-sealing, with the name of Nefer-ari-ka-Ra
oT-<2>-LJ> a king of the Vth dynasty. [No. 38,070.]
No. 229. A glazed porcelain plaque, commemorating
a Set festival of Pepi I. Meri-Ra, a king of the Vlth
dynasty. [No. 38,075.]
No. 230. Electrotype of a gold bar inscribed with the
name of king Aha. Presented by Mr. Augustus Ready.
[No. 38,159.]
;s
Illkh EGYPTIAN K< >< ».M — TABLE-CASE M.
TABLE-CASE M. In tin's case is exhibited a fine
collection i>\ flint weapons and implements, which belong
chiefly to the late Palaeolithic or early Neolithic period;
some date from the time of the first four dynasties, at
which epoch the use of the metals had long been
established in Egypt. The greater number of the finer
Miscellaneous Flint Weapons and Implements.
flint objects were found with the bodies and pottery of the
predynastic Egyptians, who were buried in and nearGebelen,
Nakada, and Abydos (Al-'Amrah) [see Guide to the First
and Second Egyptian Rooms, p. 20 ff.], and belong to the
late Neolithic period. Worthy of note in this case are : —
Nos. 1-3. Three flint borers for piercing skins.
Palaeolithic period
[Nos. 30,220, 30,408, etc.]
PREDYNAST1C AND ARCHAIC ANTIQUITIES. 59
No. 6. Flint knife with a gold handle. The gold
handle is probably modern. Predynastic period.
[No. 30409.]
Nos. 15-29. A group of fine flint knives, some being
symmetrically chipped and having serrated edges. Pre-
dynastic period.
Nos. 30-36. A group of heavy, comparatively coarsely-
chipped, flint knives. Early dynastic period.
Nos. 37-45. A group of fluted, veined, flint and chert
knives, with serrated edges ; No. 44 is one of the finest
examples of the class known, and the working of this type
is far superior to that of any other Neolithic flint work-
known. Predynastic period.
Nos. 47-58. A group of flint spear-heads, the blade
edges of which are finely serrated. Predynastic period.
Nos. 59-83. A group of heavy, coarsely-chipped, flint
butchers' knives, with hilts fashioned to fit the hand.
Early dynastic period.
No. 84. Flint object j \ , the use of which is unknown ;
it probably represents a feather. [No. 32,097.]
No. 85. Model of a horned animal (ox or ram?) in
flint. [No. 30,411.]
No. 86. Model of a human head with a cow's horns,
intended to represent the head of the goddess Hathor.
[No. 32,124.]
No. 88. Curved saw-blade in flint. [No. 30,412.]
No. 89. Double arrow-head, barbed, in flint.
[No. 32,117.]
No. 90. Heavy flint knife, of unusual shape, with
handle. " [No. 30,121.]
No. 883. Model of an animal in flint. [No. 37,269.]
Nos. 884, 885. Flint scrapers, with serrated edges.
[Nos. 37,264, 37,265.]
No. 886. Flint celt, with polished end. [No. 37,268.]
Cto THIRD EGYPTIAN ROOM — TABLE-CASE M.
No. 887. Flint core, from which flakes have been
chipped off. [No. 37,270.]
No. 888. Flint amulet (?), probably of the type which
w.is later known as the Pcsh-kcn, and was used in
ceremonies connected with the dead. | No. 37,279.]
Nos. 889, 890. Flint flake, and a half-moon shaped
object. [Sos. 37,267, 37,266.]
Nos. 883 890 were presented by the Egypt Exploration
Fund.
Nos. 91-733. A large collection of flint arrow-heads
of miscellaneous types of the predynastic period. The
various types have been grouped together as far as possible.
The finest specimens are illustrated on page 58.
Xos. 734-755. A group of miscellaneous flint and
diorite objects, including cores, celts, chisels, etc. Nos. 750-
753 are highly polished. Predynastic and early dynastic
periods.
Nos. 756-762. Flint knives, celt, etc., from Wadi Shekh
in the Libyan Desert, to the west of Maghagha. Pre-
dynastic period. Presented by W. II. Scton-Karr, Esq.,
1901.
Xos. 775-789. A group of fine flint weapons, with a
curved V-shaped blade ; the pointed end was fixed in a
haft, and many of the examples have the blades finely
serrated. Predynastic period.
Xos. 790-791. Flint scrapers.
Nos. 805-812. Flint flakes and scrapers, serrated.
Nos. 816-827. Flint scrapers, rectangular, and finely
chipped.
Nos. 834-837. Straight-topped arrow-heads, some
ornamented with gold. Early dynastic period.
Nos. 838-882. Flint arrow-heads and chips from the
Western Desert.
WALL-CASES 93-96.— Mummied animals.
~ «Nos. 1-3. Apis Bulls. The heads and the fore quarters
only are mummified. The best specimen is No. 3, for we
MUMMIED APIS BULLS.
6l
see on the forehead a representation of the white triangular
blaze which was one of the principal characteristics of the
Apis Bull, and an attempt has been made to paint on the
mummy cloth the brown colour of the head of the animal
and the dark limpid colour of the eye. [Nos. 6771-6773.]
No. 4. Skull of an Apis Bull. [No. 6774.]
The cult of the Bull in Egypt was of very ancient origin,
and this animal was regarded as the symbol of strength, and
No. 6771. Mummy of an Apis Bull.
kings were proud to call themselves " mighty bull," and the
god Osiris was called " Bull of Amentet" {i.e., the Under-
world). The principal forms of bull-worship obtained
at Memphis and Heliopolis ; in the former city the Bull
8 A
K □
was called Hap
i.e., Apis,* and was regarded
* According to Diodorus Siculus the Egyptians honoured Apis
and Mnevis by the command of Osiris, "both for their usefulness
" in husbandry, and likewise to keep up an honourable and lasting
" memory of those that first found out bread-corn and other fruits of
" the earth."
C)2 THIRD EGYPTIAN ROOM WALL-CASES 93 96.
as an incarnation of Ptah-Seker-Asar, the Memphis
of tin- dead. At Heliopolis the Hull was called Mnevis,
and was held to be an incarnation of the Sun-god Ka.
According to I [erodotus (iii. 28), "this Apis, or Epaphus, is
" the calf of a cow which is never afterwards able to bear
" young. The Egyptians say that holy fire comes down
" from heaven upon the cow, which thereupon conceives
" Apis. The calf which is so called is black, and has the
" following marks : — Upon the forehead is a white triangle,
" upon the back the figure of an eagle, in the tail double
" hairs, and under his tongue a beetle." The bronze figures
of the god Apis which are common in collections prove
that the above description is substantial!)' correct ; for
" figure of an eagle " we should, however, read, " figure of a
" vulture." From the XVII Ith dynast)- onwards the
mummied Apis bulls were buried in a large tomb at
Sakkara, now commonly known as the Serapeum, with
great pomp and ceremony, and vast sums of money were
often spent by the devotees of the god upon the funeral
ceremonies of the bulls, and the sumptuous entertainments
which followed them. Each bull was laid in a massive
granite sarcophagus, and to commemorate him was set up
a funeral stele on which were inscribed the dates of his
birth and death. These records of the lives of the Apis
bulls are often of the greatest use for purposes of chrono-
logy. A new element was introduced into the Apis
worship by Ptolemy Soter, who, about B.C. 300, identified
Osiris-Apis, i.e., Serapis, with a form of the Greek god of
the Underworld, Hades. From this time onwards the
deity Serapis was always represented with the head of the
Greek god Hades. [See Standard-Case H, No. 37,448.]
Nos. 5, 6. Skulls of the Harbary Sheep (Ovis trage-
laphus). I X ( >s. 3 5,863, 6779.]
Xo. 7. Mummy of a ram, the animal sacred to
Amen-Ra. From Thebes. [Xo. 6781.]
Nos. 8-10. Three mummies of the Cynocephalus or
dog-hcaded Ape, an animal which was associated with the
Moon, and was the companion of Thoth, and which, under
certain circumstances, was the representative of this god.
This animal was sacred to Khonsu as the god of the Moon,
MUMMIED APES, GAZELLE, CATS.
63
The sun at his rising was supposed to be hymned by a
company of seven of these apes, which, as soon as the
disk was above the horizon, turned into the spirits of the
dawn. The dog-headed ape was, and still is, a native of
the Sudan, and is often associated with the god Bes, who,
according to some, is of Nubian or Sudanese origin.
[Nos. 35,856,6736,35,857.]
No. 675S. No. 6752. No. 36,847. No. 37,348. No. 6750.
Mummied Cats.
Xo. 11. Mummy of a gazelle with a painted linen
face. From Kom Ombo. Presented by J. A. Home, Esq.,
1868. For an example of a gazelle, with the sheaths
on the horns, see No. 45. [No. 35,855.]
64 THIRD EGYPTIAN ROOM— WALL CASES 93-96.
Nos. 12 15. A group of mummied cats, with eyes
formed of pads of linen painted and sewn on to the outer
wrapping. Nos. [3 [5 are specially interesting on»account
of the careful bandaging in linen of two colours, arranged
in a symmetrical diamond pattern. XXth dynasty, or
later (l',.C. IOOO ?). [Nos. 6751 6753,6756.]
On the second shelf is arranged a fine representative
series of bronze and wooden figures of cats, and cases
for mummied cats ; among these may be specially
mentioned : —
No. 16. Wooden, mummied cat case, which was
originally covered with plaster and painted linen. The
irides of the eyes are formed of slices of crystal laid upon
a gilded surface, and the closed pupils are made of black
obsidian ; the eyelids are of bronze. From Memphis.
[No. 6761.]
No. 17. Massive wooden case in the form of a seated
cat ; the head is painted green and the body white.
[No. 22,752.]
No. 18. Solid wooden figure of a seated cat. Presented
by Major (now Colonel) Arthur Bagnold, R.E., 1887. From
Sakkara. [No. 20,725.]
No. 19. Bronze case for holding a mummied cat.
[No. 35,854-]
No. 20. Bronze case for a mummied cat, ornamented
with the figure of a scarab and a necklace carefully
engraved ; an attempt has been made to represent the
appearance of a cat's fur. From Abusir. [No. 6768.]
No. 21. Wooden case for holding a mummied cat,
with eyes made of white obsidian inlaid. [No. 6769.]
Xo. 22. Fine bronze figure of the cat-headed goddess
Bast, with eyes inlaid in gold, arrayed in a long, sleeveless
garment, the pattern of which is carefully engraved. In
her right hand she holds a Hathor-hcaded sistrum, with
the figure of a cat in the upper portion ; in her left she
holds an aegis of Bast, wearing the solar disk. (For a
large model of such an aegis, see Table-Case H,
No. 34,939-) The goddess stands upon a bronze
MUMMIES OF CATS, DOGS, JACKALS, ETC. 65
pedestal fashioned in the shape of the hieroglyphic If ,
which is the symbol of her name ; at her feet are four
seated cats. On the edge of the pedestal is a dedication
to Bast on behalf of , the son of Nefer-renpit.
Presented by the Committee of the Egypt Exploration
Fund, 1894. XXI Ind dynasty. [No. 25,565.]
No. 23. Bronze case for holding a mummied kitten,
with a pedestal in the shape of If , the symbol of Bast.
U [No. 6764.]
No. 24. Bronze case for holding a cat-fcetus, sur-
mounted by the figure of a cat. [No. 6767.]
No. 25. Bronze case for holding the mummy of a
kitten, surmounted by figures of two cats, one seated and
one lying down. Presented by Sir John Evans, K.C.B.
[No. 22,540.]
Nos. 24 and 25 are rectangular in shape.
No. 26. Solid wooden figure of a cat, plastered and
gilded, seated upon a wooden pedestal made in the form
of the hieroglyphic symbol for the cat-goddess Bast.
[No. 6759-]
No. 27. Bronze head from a wooden mummied cat-
case. [No. 36,173.]
Nos. 28, 29. Mummies of two cats, which have been
unrolled ; the fur of No. 28 is well preserved.
[Nos. 6748, 6746.]
Nos. 30-40. Eleven miscellaneous mummied cats, some
of which are swathed in the same style as Nos. 12-15 I
No. 33 dates from the Roman period, and came from
Abydos. Presented by the Egypt Exploration Fund.
[Nos. 6749, 6750, etc.]
No. 41. Mummy of a dog", neatly swathed. Roman
period. Presented bv Joseph Hull, Esq., 1879.
[No. 35.^49-J
Nos. 42, 43. Two mummied jackals, neatly swathed.
No. 43 is carefully painted. The jackal was sacred to
Anpu lla^\Qs^v (Anubis), the god of the tomb, who is
F
THIRD EGYPTIAN ROOM- WALL-CASES 93-96.
always depicted with the head of this animal. At all
periods the jackal was regarded as the guardian of the
tombs, and the- protector of the dead, on account of its
habit of prowling at night in and about the cemeteries of
the desert. Another jackal-headed deity, the counterpart
of Anubis, was Ap-uat \J ^"? g^rg^g^y, /.,-., "the opener
of the ways [of the Underworld]." In the Roman period
some confusion existed between the jackal and the dog,
which was not originally a sacred animal, but which had
by that time also become sacred to Anubis. Under
the early dynasties the dog was highly valued for pur-
poses of the chase, and distinctive breeds were carefully
maintained, but there is no evidence that this animal was
regarded with veneration until the time of the Romans.
[Nos. 35,847, 35,848.]
No. 44. Mummy of a lamb, sacred to Amen-Ra,
the great god of Thebes, from the Xllth dynasty to the
Ptolemaic period. From Thebes. [No. 37,158.]
No. 45. [Sec No. 11.]
No. 46. Mead of a mummied ram, of unusually large
size, with spiral horns projecting from the head horizontally ;
this species of sheep was originally sacred to Khnemu
(Khnoumis), the god of Elephantine, but in
the late period was confused with the ram of Amen
(Ammon), the horns of which were of the usual type.
It has been suggested that the ram of Khnemu was
originally the kudu, an animal now chiefly found in South
Africa, or was closely related to it. [No. 6777.]
On the floor of these cases are : —
No. 47. Mummy of a full-grown female crocodile,
measuring 12 ft. 3 in. ; arranged in rows along its back
are a number of very small crocodiles, which are probably
its young. Presented by the Egyptian Government, 1895.
From Kom Ombo. [No. 38,562.]
The crocodile was worshipped in Egypt from the
earliest times as the representative on earth of the Nile-
god Sebek I J r^z^^^y, the Souchos of the Greeks ; his
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MUMMIED BIRDS, SNAKES, FISH, CROCODILES. 67
worship was very general under the Xllth and Xlllth
dynasties, and during the Ptolemaic period ; his principal
shrines were at Crocodilopolis (Manfalut) and Ma'abda
in Upper Egypt, and in the district of the Fayyum, which
was specially favoured by Amen-em-hat III. (the king
Moeris of Herodotus) and his immediate successors. In
the Ptolemaic period the god was worshipped in the
Fayyum under the name of Soknopaios. Under the New
Empire Sebek became identified with the Sun-god Ra, and
was adored as Sebek-Ra.
No. 48. Portions of the skin of a crocodile which were
used as armour. From Manfalut. Presented by Mrs.
Andrews, 1846. [No. 5473.]
WALL-CASES 133-136. Here are exhibited collec-
tions of mummied birds, snakes, fish, and crocodiles, and
a series of cases in wood and bronze to hold hawks, snakes,
scorpions, etc. On the upper shelf are specimens of the
ibis mummified ; Nos. 1 and 2 contain both birds and eggs,
and No. 3 is remarkable for the neat and careful bandaging.
On the lower shelf are examples of mummified fish and
snakes, carefully bandaged in cloth of two colours (Nos. 4
and 5), and among the other objects may be noted : —
No. 6. Bronze snake case, surmounted by a figure of
a snake with human head, bearded, held erect, and sur-
mounted by the crowns of the South and North.
[Xo. 36,151-]
No. 7. Bronze snake case, with a model of a snake
lying in folds upon it. [No. 12,704.]
No. 8. Wooden case containing a mummied lizard ;
on the top of the case is a wooden figure of a lizard.
[Xo. 36,158.]
No. 9. Wooden case containing a mummied lizard,
with a sliding lid working in grooves. [No. 24,657.]
No. 10. Wooden case containing a mummied snake.
[Xo. 23,077.]
Nos. 11, 12. Bronze cases for mummied ichneumons ;
above each is a figure of the creature.
[Xos. 6770, 36,157.]
F 2
68 THIRD EGYPTIAN ROOM — WALL-CASES [33-136.
No. 13. Bronze case for mummied ichneumons; on
it are three figures of the creature. [No. 26,258.]
No. 14. Portion of bronze case with a figure of the
goddess Selq, in the form of a woman-headed scorpion ;
the case was dedicated to Isis. | No. 11,629.]
No. 1 5. Bronze figure of Selq, in the form of a woman-
headed scorpion. [No. 18,667.]
No. 16. Wooden case for holding a mummied beetle.
[No. 36,155.]
No. 17. Stone case for holding a mummied beetle.
[No. 36,149.]
No. 18. Bronze case
for mummied hawks, in
the form of a pylon, sur-
mounted by figures of four
hawks wearing the crowns
of the South and North.
[No. 37,916.]
Nos. 19, 20. Two shells
of ostrich eggs.
[Nos. 22,554, 22,555.]
[For the shell of a pre-
dynastic ostrich egg, see
on the Landing of the
No. 37,916. North-west Staircase, Wall-
Case 4, No.36,377.]
No. 21. Mummied hawk, with bronze head.
[No. 27,338.]
No. 22. Two mummied hawks bandaged together.
[No. 15,980.]
No. 23. Wooden case for holding a mummied fish,
with inlaid eyes. [No. 36,169.]
No. 24. Wooden case for a similar fish.
[No. 12,258.]
No. 25. Part of a wooden case containing a mummied
ibis. [No. 36,148.]
PILLOWS OR HEAD-RESTS. 69
No. 26. Mummied fish. [No. 24,647.]
No. 27. Wooden case, in the form of a fish, containing
a mummied fish. [No. 20,764.]
On the floor of the case, in stands, are a number of
terra-cotta jars, containing examples of the mummied ibis,
the saucer-shaped lids of which were fastened on with
plaster [No. 36,239, etc.]. Here, too, are a number of small
mummied crocodiles, a few of which [e.g., Nos. 6848, 6837]
have been unrolled, and other birds and reptiles. Nos.
6786, 6798, etc., were presented by Sir J. G. Wilkinson, in
1834; No. 35,738 by Mr. J. Doubleday, in 1839; No. 6835
by the Rev. J. Vere Monroe ; Nos. 685 1, 35,728, etc., by W.
Boyne, Esq., in 1846; Nos. 5387, 5388 by Mrs. Andrews;
No. 35,750 by Sir W. Pearson, in 1874; and Nos. 27,399,
27>397 by Somers Clarke, Esq., in 1897.
WALL-CASES 97, 98. On the shelves in these cases
is exhibited a fine and comprehensive collection of stone,
wooden, and ivory Pillows or Head-rests, which were
placed under the heads of mummies in the tombs ; many
of them were probably used by their owners during their
lifetime. The examples here displayed belong to all periods
of Egyptian history, from the IVth dynasty to the Ptole-
maic period. The peculiar form of the pillows or head-rests
is characteristically African, and pillows of similar shapes
are in use among the Negro and other tribes of Central and
South Africa at the present day. The pillow was always
regarded as an object of sacred significance, and small
model pillows, made of haematite, etc., were often worn by
the living, and were placed upon their mummies after death.
The CLXVIth Chapter of the Book of the Dead has for its
vignette a head-rest, from which we see that it was cus-
tomary to lay a small cushion on the concave upper portion;
and in the text it is said, " They lift up thy head in the
" horizon, thou art raised up, and dost triumph by reason
" of what hath been done for thee Thy head shall not
" be carried away from thee after [the slaughter], thy head
" shall never, never be carried away from thee." Among
the head-rests here exhibited the following are of special
interest : —
yo THIRD EGYPTIAN ROOM WALL-CASES 97, 98.
No. 49. 1 [ead-rest of sycamore wood, ornamented with
an ebony band and two ivory studs. Ancient Empire.
[No. 2541.]
No. 50. Head-rest roughly shaped out of a block of
wood. [No. 29,565.]
Nos. 51, 52. Head-rests of wood, having a support
in the form of a pillar. Nos. 50-52 are of the Vtli
dynasty, about U.C. 3 5 00, and were found at Dashasha, in
Upper Egypt. Presented by the Egypt Exploration
Fund. [Nos. 29,566, 29,567.]
No. 53. Head-rest on a support, with a pylon-shaped
opening in it. [No. 35,803.]
No. 54. Portion of a head- rest found in the Great
Pyramid. IVth dynasty. Presented by Colonel Howard
Vyse and J. Perring, Esq., 1840. [No. 2555.]
No. 55. Base of a wooden head-rest, ornamented with
small ivory studs ; it was made for Rera ~ (1 Vfo, a royal
kinsman, who was an official of the court of the "great
royal wife, who was united to the beauty of the Crown of
the South," Sebek-em-sa-f ^^ f\ & ^ . XlVth
dynasty, B.C. 1900. [No. 23,068.]
No. 56. Head-rest, in the form of a folding chair,
XV 1 1 Ith dynasty. From Thebes. Presented by Sir J. G.
Wilkinson. [ Xo. 2556.]
No. 57. Head-rest, in the form of a folding chair,
the legs of which terminate in the heads of geese ; the ends
of the concave portion are ornamented with heads of the
god Bes in relief. XVI I Ith dynast}-. From Thebes.
[No. 18,156.]
Xo. 58. Head -re st, in the form of a hare, the cars
of which are extended to form the support of the head.
XVIIIth dynasty. [Xo. 20,753.]
Nos. 59, 60. Head-rests, of unusual form, with widely
extended legs. From Thebes. XVIIIth dynasty.
[Nos. 18,152, 18,153.]
PILLOWS OR MEAD-RESTS.
/I
Nos. 61-63. Head-rests, with a number of small
rounded supports. New Empire. From Akhmim.
[Nos. 2542, 2543, 18,155.]
No. 64. Head-rest, in hard wood, with carefully carved
base and support. [No. 32,601.]
No. 65. Massive, solid wood head-rest, ornamented
with figures of apes and of the god Bes, and inscribed
with a text in which Bes, Ta-urt, and other gods promise
life and health to the man for whom the object was made.
Xllth dynasty. [No. 35,807.]
Presented by the Trustees of the Christy Collection, 1866.
'i^^jllitfMMiiWM^
Ivory Pillow of Kua-tep. No. 30,727.
No. 66. Head-rest, ornamented with grotesque figures
of the god Bes in outline. [No. 35,799.]
No. 67. Head-rest made for Aaua ^l^jk J) > tne
daughter of Heru, a priest of Menthu, lord of Thebes, and
of the lady Nes-Mut _ ~_\ j^Ccf)- The concave portion
is ornamented with lotus flowers and a figure of the Utchat
**g^~s , and the base is inscribed in ink with the LVth,
LXIst, and LXIInd Chapters of the Book of the Dead.
XXI Ind dynasty, or later. [No.' 35,804.]
72 THIRD EGYPTIAN ROOM — WALL-CASES 97, 98.
N0.68. Head-rest made for Heru-a Vs. (I A.f, , a priest (?)
of .\incn. New Empire. [No. 2530.]
No. 69. Ivory head-rest, with the supports marie in
the form of the thct m} or "buckle" of [sis. A very rare
object. It was made tor Kua-tep J&-L |^\, whose massive
coffin is exhibited on the landing of the North-west
Staircase [ No. 30,839]. Xlth or Xllth dynasty. From
Al-Barsha. | No. 30,727.]
No. 70. Head-rest, made of a hard light-coloured
wood and ebony, inlaid with ivory plaques and rosettes.
No. 26,256.
Two of the plaques are in the form of lotus flowers, and
the others are ornamented with lotus flowers and buds,
lions, and four figures, two seated and two standing, of a per-
sonage, who holds lotus and papyrus flowers in his hand.
The head-dress and ear-rings suggest that the object is of
Ethiopian [Nubian] origin. XXVth or XXVIth dynasty.
[No. 26,256.]
FUNERAL BOATS AND SEPULCHRAL TABLETS. 7$
Nos. 71-77. Stone and wooden head-rests, with
supports in the form of pillars with square capitals, chiefly
of the Ancient Empire. No. 71 is inscribed in hieratic,
and belongs to the Xllth dynasty ; No. 72 has two fluted
supports ; No. 74 was made for the scribe Mershi
A f\ V& } and the form of the hieroglyphics and the
name show that this object was made under the IVth
dynasty, about B.C. 3700.
[Nos. 21,886, 17,102, 32,603, 32,602, 2524, 2527, 2528.]
No. 78. Head-rest, with a support turned on a lathe ;
the whole object has been covered with bitumen. Roman
period. Presented by Sir J. G. Wilkinson. [No. 2538.]
WALL-CASES 99-114. Upper Shelf. On this
shelf, and in the back of the case, are exhibited a large
and miscellaneous collection of painted wooden sepulchral
tablets, and an important group of models of funeral boats.
The stelse are of a comparatively late date, i.e., from about
B.C. 1300 onwards, and the greater number belong to the
period which lies between the XXVIth and XXXth
dynasties. Being imitations of the fine stone stelae of the
earlier period of Egyptian history, they have rounded tops,
which were intended to represent the vault of heaven, and
have figures of the gods of the dead painted upon them,
with dedicatory inscriptions beneath them after the
manner of the costly stone stelae. When of a large size,
wooden stelae were mounted on bases, and placed either at
the head or foot of the coffin ; and when small they were
placed inside it. At the top of the stele we usually find
the winged sun v^-v , the emblem of the god Horus of
Behutet y\ ^^^ i.e., the skv-god. Beneath this comes a
representation of the deceased, who is seen making offerings
either to Ra, or Osiris, or to the principal gods of the
company of Osiris, or to the four children of Horus ; he is
often accompanied by his wife, and sometimes by his sons
and daughters also. The texts beneath these scenes are of
two kinds, that is, they are either hymns to Ra, in which the
deceased asks the god for permission to enter the Boat ot
Millions of Years, and to travel with him, or prayers to Osiris
71 THIRD EGYPTIAN ROOM WALL-CASES 99 I 14.
Arrobis, ctr., that the customary general offerings may be
made to the ka ^ or "double" of the deceased at the
appointed seasons for ever. In tin- case of tombs which
were visited by the relatives and friends of the dead, these
were expected to repeat tin- prayers which were inscribed
on the stelae, for it was a matter of common belief that
the repetition of such funeral prayers would bring an
abundance of sustenance to the deceased in the next
world. The elaborately painted pictures of offerings
representing oxen, feathered fowl of various kinds,
vegetables, fruit, flowers, wine, milk, incense, linen
garments, unguents, etc., were believed to turn into food, etc.,
for the ka, or double, as soon as the proper words of
power were uttered, cither by the deceased in the Under-
world or by his friends and relatives upon earth.
No. 79. Wooden stele, with a painted figure of the lady
Nes Hathor J j^\ worshipping Ra-Harmachis. XlXth
dynasty. [No. 22,917.]
No. 80. Wooden stele, with a figure of the lady Tchet
Bast "^| Wo, worshipping Ra-Harmachis and Osiris; the
deceased was a temple woman of Amen. XXIInd dynasty.
[No. 8452.]
No. 81. Wooden stele, with a figure of the lady
Nehems Bast ^ W » the wife of Peta-Amen-[neb]-taui
[\— — ,~| ° ^ , who had predeceased her, worshipping
Ra-Harmachis. XXIInd dynasty. [No. 22,916.]
No. 82. Wooden stele, with a figure of Nekht f-Mut
^-^ *^ ix\* 4g] > a " divine father" of Amen, the son of
Utchat-Amen-mes ^g (1 fu'^j' worshipping Ra-
Harmachis ; he is accompanied by his daughter, " the lady
of the house," Shepu-en Ast ***** r ^ . XlXth
' * DIM JJq
dynasty. [No. 37,899-]
SEPULCHRAL STEL/E. 75
No. 83. Wooden stele, with a figure of the priestess of
AmenSheps-en-Aah^^^A H D| ^^ J|, worshipping
Ra-Harmachis. XlXth dynasty. [No. 25,262.]
No. 84. Wooden stele, with a figure of Pa ta-Amen
/kK^ A (J , a priest of Amen, and the overseer of the
artificers of the temple of Amen, offering incense to Osiris.
XXth dynasty. [No. 8484.]
No. 85. Painted stone stele, with the figure of an
unnamed priest adoring Osiris, Isis, Nephthys, Mestha,
and Tuamutef. Ptolemaic period. [No. 8490.]
No. 86. Painted stone stele, with a figure of the lady
^n O /www q ff\
Ta-sheret en-Mehet ^ <|\ Jl)^| J adoring Ra-Har-
machis, Isis, and Nephthys. Persian period. From
Abydos. [No. 29,422.]
No. 87. Wooden stele, with a figure of the lady
/\ f\ minim
Hetep-Amen = = n , the daughter of the priest of
<C^ □ 1 /vwwv
Menthu, Mapu t\ * — a %> and of Nares "^ <c=> fl J,
addressing Ra-Harmachis and Osiris. From the feet of
the former god springs a bearded serpent ; the deceased
is represented coming from the east tr to the west ft, where
the Underworld was supposed to be situated. XXth
dynasty. [No. 8453.]
No. 88. Wooden stele, with a figure of the priest
Tchet-Menthu-auf-ankh ^^ ~w^[] ^ •¥• ® \§, the son
/V\^V\A /WW\A
of Nini 3, adoring Ra-Harmachis, Isis, and the
four children of Hurus. XXI Ind dynasty. [No. 8460.]
No. 89. Wooden stele, with a figure of the lady Her-
ari-su <£» 3, adoring Osiris and four solar gods.
Late Ptolemaic period. [No. 8472.]
7C THIRD EGYPTIAN ROOM WALL-CASES 99 n.|.
No. 90. Wooden stele, with a figure of the priest Nes-
p-sekher ^ [^ D ^ J^ V& , the son of Tchet-Tehuti-
auf-ankh^|^_(j ^^-™, and Set-ari-ba-ur -^
^^^J)^^^' adoring Ra-Harmachis and Atmu, i.e., the
morning and evening sun> The deceased and his father
held the same offices of keeper of the beer cellar and
poulterer, and each was the chief cook in the temple of
Amen. From Akhmim. XXth dynasty. [No. 36,504.]
No. 91. Painted stone stele, in the form of a pylon,
made for the judge of appeal ^ ° Pen-nubu
/ I TT 1
/*k^»v cr\ C ' " — I /WvVNA
j *>m& \ a Vij * 1 • 1
1 °°° PI ' Wltnm tnc shrine is a seated figure of the god
Ptahofthe" Beautiful Face." XXIst dynasty. [No. 8497.]
No. 92. Painted stone stele, with a figure of Aa-pehti
-^ ^ adoring the god Seti-thiaa-pehti, *V 1 ^
a \\ m • psj \\
j _^0 ^37 . This is one of the very few
examples of adoration being paid to the god Set on a stele
of this kind. X IX th dynasty. [No. 35,630.]
No. 93. Stone stele with a figure of the lady I-em-ta-
PCt 15a 1^!^ - ~^' adorin2 thc Soddesj; Mer-
seker .c^ §() PA *>., " Lover of silence," thc tutelary
deity of the necropolis on the western bank at Thebes.
XlXth dynasty. [No. 8501.]
No. 94. Painted stone stele, with a figure of a man,
whose name is illegible, adoring Ra-Harmachis, Mer-sekcr,
and another. XVIIIth dynasty. [No. 8493.]
Presented by the late Sir J. G. Wilkinson.
No. 95. Wooden stele, with a figure of the "divine
father," Petaas ] $f > •surnamccl I-em-hetep 0(1
A thesonof Pekhar-en-Khensu dT_2s£,v, icH5'
SEPULCHRAL STEL^. 77
adoring Ra-Harmachis and Atmu, the sun god of the
morning and evening. XX 1st dynasty. [No. 8456.]
No. 96. Wooden stele, with a figure of a deceased person,
whose name is illegible, adoring the god Osiris and a
number of the gods of his company. Ptolemaic period.
[No. 8469.]
No. 97. Wooden stele, with a figure of Maat-Heru-Ru
\A <zr> \\ 1 Vui adorinsf Ra-Harmachis, Isis, and
other deities. Ptolemaic period. [No. 8478.]
No. 98. Portion of a wooden stele, with a figure of
Ast-[em]-Khebit [j^ [f^J ®J Jj£§J a sistrum bearer
of Amen, the daughter of a lady who held the same office,
adoring Ra-Harmachis, Khepera, Shu and other gods. On
the back is a scene in which light is represented falling
from the sun on the horizon, with the signs for the East
and West, ¥ ft, on either side. Ptolemaic period.
[No. 8481.]
No. 99. Wooden stele, with the figure of the lady
Ta-khenen-nu ^"|\ JLo%&$, the daughter of Bakren
}
and Ta bak en-Khensu
adoring Osiris, Isis, Nephthys, and the four
crnTdrenof Horus. XXIVth dynasty. [No. 21,637.]
No. 100. Wooden stele of the sistrum bearer Ta-heb
^ "%k ni Jl ^W=^f ' the son of Pe-ta-Amen-neb-nest-taui.
In the rounded portion of the tablet are :— The winged
disk, with pendent uraei, and the two jackals Anpu and
Ap-uat A J \/?ff- In the first register the soul
1 n li I 1 1 ^v
of the deceased, in the form of a human- headed hawk ^,
is making offerings to Ra, Khepera, Shu, and five other
gods, and in the second the deceased is standing in adora-
tion before Osiris, Horus, and five other gods. On the back
of the tablet is a scene similar to that already described
under No. 98. XXI I nd dynasty. [No. 8465.]
78 THIRD EGYPTIAN ROOM — WALL-CASES <)<J I 14.
No. 101. Wooden stele, with a figure of the sistrum-
bearer of Bast, Nehem-s Ra-taui <e* I ' !^rjj> adoring
Osiris and five of the gods of his company. XXIInd
dynasty. [No. 8477.]
No. 102. Wooden stele, with a small painted tablet
enclosed within a double pylon, in relief, in which the
priest User-a-harua j fl *~j °%F< >7fl?Jf' tnc son
of Peta-Ast, is represented adoring Ra-Harmachis and
Maat. XXth dynasty. [No. 8482.]
No. 103. Wooden stele of Tcha-set-hem J | |§ f\
^y W*. Above the text the mummy of the deceased, with
the soul hovering over it, is seen lying upon its bier, in the
presence of Isis, Nephthys, and the four children of Horus ;
below it are the magical symbols tet and thet R u K, the
emblems of the East and West, and the gods Khnemu,
Thoth, Shu, and Tefnut holding knives. Ptolemaic period.
[No. 8486.]
No. 104. Wooden stele of Basa-en Mut (^ T? o
V, a priest of Menthu, lord of Thebes, the son ol
Nes-pa-sefi ~"j 1^ fl ^^ j8) and Shepset aru ru ^P^
^s^-yNi. The upper portion contains figures of the
deceased adoring Temu and Ra-Harmachis, and beneath
are two hymns to these gods. XXIInd dynast)-.
[No. 22,915.]
No. 105. Wooden stele of Pe kha Khensu nT * l$f;
a scribe in the service of the goddess Serk (Selk) Ufa J^ ^
I n"^ Z5 G$&> *ke son of the priest of Amen, Pe-ta-
Amen-nlnest-taui 1 f V II k f ^ ° A li S I $ '
and of the sistrum bearer of Amen-Ra 11 , Nehem-s Ra-
SEPULCHRAL STELyE. 79
taui. In the upper register the soul of the deceased is
seen adoring Ra and his company, who are seated in the
Boat of Millions of Years, and below the deceased worships
Osiris, Isis, Nephthys, Horus, the avenger of his father, and
Hathor. XX I Ind dynasty. [Xo. 8467.]
/•/WW\ ff—
No. 106. Wooden stele of Nehem-s-Ra-taui & n ,
In the upper portion are the two jackal-dogs of
the South and North ; a figure of the deceased adoring the
dead sun-god Af, who stands in his boat within a shrine
formed by the Serpent-god Mehen, and is piloted by
Harpocrates ; and two scenes in which the deceased is
adoring Osiris at morning and evening. This stele was
originally prepared for a man, the name of the deceased
lady being added later. XXI Ind dynasty. [No. 8470].
n —°-^ m
No. 107. Wooden stele of Sehetep-Khensu I ^
I Ol U ^VvW\
1 j3f > a priest of Horus. In the upper portion the deceased,
who is introduced by Anubis, is seen adoring Osiris, Isis,
and Nephthys, and in the prayer below it is stated that he
was attached to the service of all the gods and goddesses
of Edfu. Ptolemaic period.
[No. 32,199-]
No. 108. W'ooden stele of a priest, who is represented
in the act of adoring the dead sun-god Af, who is seated
in his boat, and a company of nine gods, with Ra at their
head, and Osiris and five of the gods of his company. Late
Sai'te period, about B.C. 400. [No. 8466.]
No. 109. Wooden stele of Sheps-her ab-Aset ^jOn <E3> ,
J r> $T ' comman<^er °f the crew of the boat of Amen, with
figures of the deceased adoring Ra-Harmachis and Atmu.
XX I Ind dynasty, or later. [No. 8457.]
f/WW\A s<T7
V Q 1 i§ ' the son of Bes"Mut J P 3^ ^ ' and ^eteP"
80 THIRD EGYPTIAN Rl II >M WALL-( VSl S < ? > I !.|.
Amen . — Q — . (J ~ , with figures of the deceased adoring
Ra-Harmachis and Atmu. Bes-Mut was a priest of Amen-
K.i an<l<>f S A jp ^[l~^(] • XXVI Ith dynasty.
[No. 22,919.]
LJ-Xo. in. Wooden stele of Uah-ab-Ra 1^9$;
A II a
spaces are left blank for the names oi his father and
mother. In the upper part of the stele, below the winged
disk and jackals, the deceased is seen adoring the dead
sun-god Af (Hem x qqq) and Osiris and his company of
gods. XXV Ith dynast}-. [No. 8464.]
No. 1 12. Wooden stele with a figure of Pef en-Bastet
D $\ ~^~^ W ° yck f adoring Osiris and some of the gods of
his company. XXXth dynasty. [No. 8480.]
Xo. 113. Wooden stele of the divine scribe and
governor Heru-a v\ v^nt' w^° st-;UK's m adoration
before Ra-Harmachis and Temu ; each god stands in a
shrine. The text below consists of two hymns, one to the
rising and one to the setting sun. XXI Ind dynasty.
[No. 8455.]
No. 1 14. Wooden stele, with a figure of Emma Bastet
kZfltl^^' dauShter of Tchethra ^ ^V&, and
Ta-uaru o<5\ -£) "^ C?j , adoring the deities of the
.m 0 ( l >1 &
sunrise and sunset. XXXth dynast)-. [No. 35,897.)
No. 115. Wooden stele, with a figure of Panes
/Xx -ZT) yf > " president of the secrets of the seat of Maat,"
i.e., a high judicial official, adoring Osiris, Isis, Nephthys,
and a child of Horus; his father Heru y\ w\ held the
same office. The figures are white, painted with red lines
and gold, upon a blue ground ; the use of gold on wooden
sepulchral stelae is most unusual. XXI Ind dynasty.
[No. 8504.]
SEPULCHRAL STELAE. 8 1
No. 116. Wooden stele with a figure of Pa-shere-Aset
fa r ^ VQ} adoring Ra-Harmachis, Isis, and the four
children of Horus, each of whom holds a palm branch
instead of the ordinary sceptre 1 . Early Ptolemaic period.
[No. 8459.]
No. 117. Wooden stele of Ari-nekht-tcha
, son
of Menth-ari-tas
J
AP
U=4
and
^ <==> J) Shepset-Aset-urt, with a similar scene. XXXth
dynasty. [No. 8458.]
No. 1 1 8. Wooden stele of the lady Qeresa
daughter of Tcha-en ret
per
.7 <z=> ^\ vfa , and Thes-Mut-
t\s^ CJf , with a similar scene. XXXth
dynasty. [No. 22,918.]
No. 119. Wooden stele of Ari-seb aru n ]j:^>"<
with a similar scene. XXXth dynasty. [No. 35,625.]
No. 120. Wooden stele of the priest Nes-pua _ ^1
D ol eff ' son °^ Nes-Ptah ^j Q V& . Ptolemaic period.
[No. 8473.]
r\ /WWSA
No. 121. Wooden stele of AnkhfKhensu ■¥■ ®
® 1^, son of Bes-Mut 3L \jC^f , with figures of the
deceased adoring Ra-Harmachis and Atmu. The text
below consists of two hymns addressed to these deities.
XXVIth dynasty. [No. 22,914.]
No. 122. Wooden stele of Nes-Heru
son of
X q
Peseshet and Qebkhu 15 D ^ , with a
similar scene. XXVIth dynasty. [No. 21,636.]
G
82 THIRD EGYPTIAN ROOM — WALL-CASES \g up
No. u.v Wooden stele of Pa-hap-ha-Menthu r
son of Amen-ari [I <=>, and Tenet - Ast-
ari-ast .JT^ f" <=^> [ Jj, with a figure of the deceased
adoring Osiris and some of the gods of his company.
XXXth dynasty. [No. 8476.]
No. 124. Wooden stele of a priest of Amen-Ra, with
a figure of the deceased adoring Ra-Harmachis. XlXth
dynasty. [No. 8451.]
No. 125. Wooden stele of Nes-qa-shuti /I ^ffl^f >
son of Qaha A ^V&and Mut-a^?|], with a figure
of the deceased worshipping Osiris, [sis, Neheb-kau,
Nephthys, and the four children of Horus, who stand on
a lotus flower. XXVIth dynasty. [ No. 8479.]
No. 126. Wooden stele with figuies of Neb-Amen
^Z^7 [I ( a judge of appeal, and his brother Aui
1 AAAAAA
<\ ir V^jO'^r' Coring "Amen-Ra, the beautiful prince,"
who is represented in the form of a ram. XlXth dynasty.
[No. 8485]
No 127. W'ooden stele of Tchet-hra "^1 ? with a
figure of the deceased adoring Osiris and certain of his
gods. XXXth dynasty. [No. 8475.]
No. 128. Wooden stele of Peta-Amen-Ra-neb-Uast
n A ^" ^zy f with figures of Osiris and the four
children of Horus. Ptolemaic period. [No. 8471.]
No. 129. Wooden stele with a figure of Ta-qes
c/%Sv r ^ . a singing woman of Amen-Ra, adoring the
triune form of the sun-god. XXth dynasty.
[No. 27,332.]
SEPULCHRAL STELAE. 83
No. 130. Wooden stele of Tunf-pa-nefer ^
//>iC Jl $T ' son °^ Peta- Asar, with a figure of the de-
ceased adoring Ra-Harmachis and Isis. XXVIth dynasty.
[No. 21,639.]
No. 131. Wooden stele of Heru-utcha \>k|> with a
figure of the deceased adoring Ra ; the text is a prayer for
sepulchral offerings. XXVIth dynasty. [No. 8448.]
No. 132. Wooden stele of a daughter of Nekht-f-
Mut ^~tx~ \^0- XXIInd dynasty. [No. 35,895.]
No. 133. Wooden stele of Maatiu-ariu
W w>Vir> with figures of the deceased and his wife
W v\Mf, with figures of the deceased and hi
adoring Ra and the four children of Horus. XXXth
dynasty. [No. 8474.]
No. 134. Wooden stele of Peta-Khensu li
/A /I WVWS I
an official of the temples of Amen-Ra and Khensu at
Karnak ; the deceased is represented with a large dish of
offerings upon his head and a cake in the form of a crescent
moon, symbolic of Khensu. XXVth dynasty.
[No. 35,896.]
No. 135. Wooden stele of Nes-ther-en-Maat /"I °
/wwv\ v~2f3i
^^7, the daughter of the chief clerk of the works in the
temple of Amen, Ankh-pa-khrat T/Jxl % an^ Theshepet
Dq. XXIInd dynasty. [No. 8450.]
No. 136. Wooden stele of Taiau-khrat <=-. v\ (1
a singing woman in the temple of Amen. XXth dynasty
[No. 8447.]
No. 137. Wooden stele of Thebnesta n ]|^1
G 2
84 THIRD EGYPTIAN ROOM — WALL-CASES 99-1 14.
mounted on a pair of steps. Within an ornamental border
arc painted the following scenes : — 1. The sun's disk, with
pendent uraei, shedding rays of light on each side of a
jackal. 2. The soul adoring the dead sun-god Af, who is
seated in his boat; behind the soul is its "shadow," T ,
3. A man, called Tchabari
J " " l]l]$J» probably
the husband of Theb-
nesta, adoring Osiris
and six of the gods
of his company 4.
Row of figures of the
Tet n, and the "buckle
XXI Ind
[No. 8463.]
No. 138. Wooden
stele of Nesui
vvft, a priest,
Takureheb
(5. ilTJ^'
who makes adorations
to the gods in the
boat of Ra, and to
the gods in the Under-
world. The stele is
beautifully painted in
>right colours on a
white ground, and
stands upon two sup-
ports in the form of the mythological steps ^/J ; it is sur-
mounted by a human-headed hawk, emblematic of the soul
of the deceased, with a gilded face.
This is one of the finest examples of the painted wooden
funeral stelae in the collection. XX I Ind dynasty.
[No. 8468.]
No. 8468
SEPULCHRAL STEL.K. 85
No. 139. Wooden stele of Uah-ab-Ra jf _ » a priest
of Amen-Ra, son of the "scribe of the wonders of Amen-
Ra," Neb-nest-taui ^7 =>)^- This stele is elabo-
rately painted, and contains an unusually large number
of mythological scenes, which may be thus described : —
(1) Gilded disk with wings and uraei ; (2) beetle, from
which proceed a number of emblems of life "TT"T"T">
that fall upon the mummy of the deceased ; on each side of
the mummy are several genii of the underworld ; (3) repre-
sentations of the souls of the deceased and his father and
mother adoring the dead sun-god and the gods of his,
company, who are seated in a boat ; (4) the deceased and
his mother worshipping the symbol of Osiris, g| , and
various deities ; (5) the deceased adoring two rows of gods.
On the edge of the stele is a double inscription, and on the
back is a representation of the disk of the sun shedding
rays of light. On the stele the god Amen is described as,
" lord of the thrones of the two lands in the glory of the
monuments," i.e., the great temples of Karnak and Luxor,
which were still magnificent, although the city of Thebes
itself had been sacked and partly destroyed by the Assyrians
not long before the period when the stele was made,
XXVIth dynasty. [No. 8461.]
No. 140. Wooden stele of Peta-Amen-neb-nest-taui
(J VJft , *on of Heru v\ M£ and Karuthet
1 — ' 4 vfy . The deceased held the offices of (1) " divine
father of Amen in Karnak," (2) " high priest of Annu-resu
{i.e., Dendera)," (3) " he who is over the secrets," (4) " liba-
tioner of the god in the most holy places," (5) "great
prophet of Khensu in Thebes, surnamed Nefer-hetep."
0 1 a \l '-' I |\ t T ^^ . His father held the
\=*p 1
86 THIRD EGYPTIAN ROOM — WALL-CASES 99 I i .}.
same offices (y 4-4* )■ 'n t'lc registers the deceased's soul
is represented in the act of adoring, in company with two
groups of sacred apes, the dead sun-god Af, who is seated
in his boat, and the deceased, in full priestly attire, is
adoring Ra-Harmachis, Atmu, Khepera, Osiris, Isis, Neph-
thys, and Anubis. On the back of the stele, which is
mounted on two supports in the form of steps, the sun's
disk is depicted shedding rays between the symbols of
East and West. XXVIth dynasty. [No. 8462.]
Funeral Boats. — -The fine collection of painted wooden
boats with their crews here exhibited is of two classes,
viz., those which are made in the form of the ordinary
funeral or divine bark {baris) as represented on the monu-
ments, and those which are models of the ordinary river
boats which were in common use at the time they were
made. In the former the deceased is seen lying upon his
bier under a canopy, sometimes accompanied by Isis and
Ncphthys ; sometimes such boats contain figures of rowers,
and sometimes they do not. Boats of this class are found
in all periods, and are of various sizes, but those of the
second class usually belong to the period of the Xlth and
Xllth dynasties, about B.C. 2500-2200, and are, relatively,
of large size ; they are always provided with a large crew,
the members of which are often dressed in garments made
of real linen cloth, which is contemporaneous with the
figures themselves. Each boat was furnished with masts,
sails (which have now perished), and elaborately decorated
oars, and steering posts, the ends of which are often in the
form of the heads of hawks. The use of the funeral boat
dates from the earliest period, those of the first class repre-
sent the actual funeral boat in which the body of the
deceased was ferried across the Nile from the east to the
west bank, where the majority of the cemeteries were
situated, and those of the second class are to be regarded
merely as articles of funeral furniture, and must be placed
in the same category as the models of houses, granaries,
and labourers and tradesmen which are found with them
in tombs of the same period. With both classes of boats,
however, was connected another religious idea, namely, the
conception of the boat of the sun-god, called the " Boat of
FUNERAL BOATS. 87
" Millions of Years," in which the souls of the beatified
were believed to travel nightly in the train of the sun-god
as he passed through the Underworld from West to East.
The sun-god made his journey by day a_cross the sky in
two boats, which were called respectively Atet (or, Matet)
and Sektet (or, Semktet). In the former of these he
travelled until noon, and in the latter from noon until the
evening. During the night, when the sun-god travelled
through the Underworld, he was regarded as dead, like the
other denizens of the Tuat (see page 126), and in this form
he appears as a ram-headed being, called Af, or Auf
(literally, "his, i.e., the sun-god's, body"), who, as we have
seen on the funeral stelae already described, sits within a
shrine which is formed by the folds of the serpent Mehen.
Finally, the boats of the second class seem to have been
placed in the tombs with the view of providing the dead
man with the means of sailing about on the streams of the
Underworld. By a process of thought common to primitive
religions, the Egyptians believed that by the use of words
of magical power the "double" (ghost) could transform the
models of objects placed in the tombs, including boats,
houses, etc., into ghostly representations of their originals
upon earth. Thus, provided that such modeis were placed in
the tombs to serve as bases for the ghostly materialization,
the deceased could provide himself with anything that he
required in the next life. The boat was considered to be
such a necessary adjunct to the comfort of the deceased in
the next world, that special chapters of the Book of the
Dead were compiled for the purpose of supplying him with
the words of power necessary to enable him to obtain it.
Thus Chapter XCIX. helped him "to bring along a boat,"
Chapter C. enabled him to sail in the boat of Ra, and
several other chapters related to the boat of Ra. In
Chapter XCIX. we have a full list of the magical names of
different parts of the ghostly boat in the Underworld, which
the deceased was obliged to utter correctly before the boat
would allow him to enter. Thus, " Tell us our name," say
the oar-rests ; and the deceased answers, " Pillars of the
" Underworld is your name." " Tell me my name," saith
the Hold; "Aker" is thy name. "Tell me my name,"
saith the Sail ; " Nut" {i.e., heaven) is thy name," etc.
88 THIRD EGYPTIAN ROOM — WALL-CASES 99 114.
No. 1 1 1. Model of a boat, painted red, with a crew ol
nine men ; on the deck is a cabin, which much resembles
that in use at tin- present day. Xlth or Xllth dynasty.
[No. 36422.]
No. 14 2. Stone-boat, with a canopy, beneath which is
a figure of a man rolling bread, in the style of the Early
Empire ; on the side are reliefs of animal scenes, in the
style of tin' XV 1 1 1th dynasty ; whilst the attendant priests
are intended to represent men of a much later period. These
anachronisms suggest that the object is a modern forgery.
Presented by Captain Taylor, 1841. [No. 9507.]
No. 143. Model of a ferry-boat, with a crew of eight
rowers, a steersman, and a man who held a punting ]><.!<• ;
the passengers are four in number, two persons of rank, who
are seated and wear white cloaks, a servant carrying a pa< k
of luggage on his back, and another servant. Xlth or
Xllth dynasty. [No. 35,291.]
No. 144. Model of a ferry-boat, or war-boat, with a
crew of fourteen rowers sitting in pairs ; the coxswain is
provided with a very long and heavy steering oar, and the
oars are fastened to the side of the boat by string. Xlth
or Xllth dynasty. [No. 25,361.]
No. 145. Model of a boat, of somewhat clumsy build,
with a very short keel and overhanging bows and stern.
Xllth dynasty. [No. 35,292.]
No. 146. Model of a long war-boat, the crew of which
consists of six rowers and a steersman. In the centre of
the boat, with his back to a mast, is seated a person of
quality ; in front of him is a shelter, formed by two of the
great cow-hide shields in use in this period, leaning against
a post ; under the shields is an object which is probably
intended to represent a brazier with fire in it. In the bows
of the boat stand five men, each holding a short stick.
Xllth dynasty. | No. 35,293.]
No. 147. Model of a boat with rowers, each seated
upon a separate bench ; a few of these still have upon
them their original linen loin-clothes. A person of dis-
tinction, wearing a long white cloak, is seated in the bows.
Xllth dynasty. [No. 34,273.]
FUNERAL BOATS.
89
Nos. 148, 149. Two models of funeral boats, provided
with canopied biers, whereon lie models of the mummies
of the deceased persons. At each end of each bier stands
a female mourner, who symbolizes one of the two goddesses
Isis and Nephthys. Close by stand models of water jars
on a frame, and articles of food ; each boat is provided
with a steersman, who works two large oars, the handles of
which terminate in the heads of hawks. The tops of the
steering posts also terminate in the heads of hawks. XI Ith
dynasty. [Nos. 9524, 9525.]
No. 9525.
WALL-CASES 99-109. Second Shelf. Here is
exhibited a representative series of small portrait statues
and figures, made of hard stone of various kinds, limestone,
sandstone, etc., which date from the period of the Illrd
dynasty, about B.C. 3800, to the Roman period, about A. I).
200. Archyeologically and artistically this collection is
of the highest importance, for from it may be traced the
development of Egyptian sculpture in the round, and the
modifications which the art of portraiture underwent during
the successive great periods of Egyptian history, which
taken together cover a space of about four thousand years.
From first to last the sculptors made use of the charac-
teristic white limestone of the country, which was generally
painted, to a greater or less extent. (See the groups in
90
THIRD EGYPTIAN ROOM — WALL-CASE 99.
Wall-Case 105.] During the period of the Early Empire,
hard stones, of fine, close texture, usually black in colour,
were employed in making small figures see Wall-Cases 99,
100); light yellow alabaster was also much used. Under
the Xllth dynast)- red and white quartzitc and green
felspar became common (see Wall-Cases ioi, 102 ; under
the New Empire black and red granite were in fashion,
and under the XXVIth dynast)- black basalt was exten-
sively used for statues, chiefly because it was most suitable
for cutting the delicately shaped
hieroglyphics upon. The best
portrait work seems to have
been executed under the IVth,
X I Ith, and XVI I Ith dynasties;
the archaistic revival of the
XXVIth dynasty also gave
rise to an attempt to equal the
portraiture of the early dyna-
sties. The carefully executed,
but somewhat unpleasing por-
trait statues of the Roman
period, are due to the influence
of Graxo-Roman art.
No. 150. Limestone seated
figure of the official Nefer-hi
Iroflfl' painted red. Illrd or
I Yth dynasty. From Sakkara.
[No. 24,714.]
No. 151. Portion of the
head of a statue of an official.
bound in the workmen's
quarters, behind the Second Pyramid of Gizeh. IVth
dynasty. [No. 14,288.]
The Official Nefer-hi. No. 24,714.
Xo. 152. Black granite statue of a nobleman, or official ,"
over his wig he wears a kind of band, which encircles the
head, after the manner of the camel-hair rope worn by
Arabs. This is the only example of the head-dress in the
collection. Illrd or IVth dynasty. [No. 26,790.]
PORTRAIT STATUES AND FIGURES. 9 1
No. 153. Painted limestone head of an officer. IVth
dynasty. From Sakkara. [No. 13,346.]
No. 154. Painted limestone seated figure of Annua,
"^r y(|> a priest and nobleman. Vth dynasty. From
Sakkara. [No. 32,184.]
No. 155. A group of fourteen small black stone por-
trait figures, of similar workmanship and characteristics.
Vlth-XIIIth dynasties. The chief names are those of
Apep (j
Heru-sa-f C\ *^_M£, Anepu, priest of Hathor, and
_.m? I til
; No. 13,320 is a double statue (Antef and his
wife Mersebs), and Xo. 2305 is a triple statue, made in
honour of Menthu-hetep, his mother Apu, and wife Met-ta-
nebu (?). Most of these statues come from Abydos and
the neighbourhood.
No. 156. Alabaster seated figure of a priest, whose
throne rests upon a step-pedestal of painted limestone.
From Abydos. [Xo. 2313.]
Xo. 157. Similar alabaster figure standing. From
Abydos. [No. 2312.]
Xos. 158, 159. Two painted limestone figures of men,
one seated and the other standing.
[Xos. 13,318, 3^,437 -1
Nos. 156-159 belong to the period which lies between
the Vlth and the Xlth dynasties.
No. 160. Painted limestone figure of An-kheft-k
^^^z^6, a "royal relative" I <czb> and scribe. IVth
or Vth dynasty. From Dashasha. [Xo. 29,562.]
Presented by the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1897.
Xo. 161. Painted limestone figure inscribed in hieratic
with the name Usr | |lr ^ and a prayer to Anubis.
Xlth dynasty. [Xo. 30,457.]
02 THIRD EGYPTIAN ROOM -WALL-CASES 100, 101.
No. [62. Statue of Mera (1, a royal steward,
wearing a skull-cap. Vlth X I tli dynast)-. From Kurna.
[No. 37,'895-]
No. 163. Statue of Mera, ;i royal steward, wearing a
wig. Vlth-XIth dynasty. From Kurna. [No. $■/,■
Nos. 162 and 163 are statues of the same person in different
costumes; they are of great interest and importance, for
they are among the earliest specimens
of Theban art, as they date from the
period when the Heraklcopolite kings
ruled over Egypt, and before the
founding of the great Theban Empire.
No. 164. Diorite statue of Sebek-
nekht, the son of Ankhet. Very fine
work. X I Ith or XHIth dynasty.
[No. 29,671.]
No. 165. Seated statue of Set-
rumi, an officer of the Temple of Ptah.
XI Ith or XI I Ith dynasty.
[No. 29,946.]
No. 166. Upper portion of a
portrait figure of an officer. XI Ith
dynasty. [No. 1 3-345-]
No. 167. Green felspar statue of
Ankh-pa-khrat, a priest of Hathor.
This is one of the finest examples of
small portrait figures in hard stor.e
in the Museum. XI Ith dynasty.
[No. 32,183-]
Statue of
Ptah-em-sa-f-senb-tefi.
No. 24,385.
No. 168. Black granite statue
of an official ; the name is illegible. XI Ith dynasty.
[No. 35,3^.]
No. 169. Rough limestone figure of a man ; poor work.
Xlth dynasty. [No. 2296.]
No. 170. Red quartzite statue of Ptah-em-sa-f-senb-
PORTRAIT STATUES AND FIGURES.
93
ft
Statue of Mera. No. 37,895.
Statue of Mera. No. 37,896-
94 THIRD EGYPTIAN ROOM— WALL-CASES lOl, 102.
tefi x v\ Iwwa J ' \\, son of Kemt, a royal
chancellor and scribe of Lower Egypt. The; deceased is
dressed in a long garment, which extends from his arm-
pits to his feet ; this costume is characteristic of the period,
and the statue is a fine example of the work of the
Xllth dynasty. [No. 24,385.]
Nos. 1 7 1 \ and B. Upper portions of two basalt figures ot
Amen-em-hat III., the greatest king of the Xllth dynasty,
about B.C. 2300. This king is the Mceris, or Maros, of the
Greeks, and is famous because of his works in connexion
with the Fayyum, and the building of the Labyrinth at
Ilawara, which is described by Greek and Roman writers.
[Nos. 26,935, 36,298.]
No. 172. Cast of the head of a figure of Amen-
hetep III., in the possession of Lord Grenfell.
[No. 18,192.]
No. 173. Seated figure of Senb-f, an overseer of
artisans. Xllth or XII Ith dynasty. [No. 2307.]
Xo. 174. Grey granite figure of an official. Since the
figure bears no name, it is evident that it formed part of
the stock of a funeral furnisher, who kept it in readiness
for a possible purchaser, whose name would be inscribed
upon it when bought. Xllth dynasty. [No. 2308.]
No. 175. Limestone standing figure, painted white,
and inscribed on the pedestal in hieratic with the name of
Usertsen (?), a devotee of the god Menthu. Xllth
dynasty. [No. 2295.]
No. 176. Limestone figure ; rude work, and unfinished
appearance. XII Ith-XVI Ith dynasty. [No. 32,056.]
No. 177. Lower portion of a seated figure of a king,
made of crystalline white quartzite. The work and
material indicate that this object dates from the Xllth
dynasty, and the figure may have been intended to
represent Amen-em-hat III. Xllth dynasty.
[No. 35,36i.]
PORTRAIT STATUES AND FIGURES. 95
No. 178. Fine green basalt statue of a king. The
beard, which was made of gold or electrum, was fastened
under the chin by pegs, the sockets of which are still
visible. On the base is an unfinished inscription, which
reads, " Beautiful Horus, giver of life, the servant of
Thoth"(?). XI I Ith dynasty. [No. 18,193.]
No. 179. Portion of a limestone figure of the " royal
relative" Athembu* h & "1 t\ 1%. XHIth dynasty
No. 37,883. [See page 96.]
or later. The form of the name suggests that Athembu
was not an Egyptian. [No. 21,878.]
No. 180. Diorite seated figure of Uru (?), son of
Hetepet. XI Ith or XI I Ith dynasty. [No. 36,441.]
* Variant [ £vM @ Athebu.
)J
96
THIRD EGYPTIAN ROOM — WALL-CASE 102.
No. t8i. 1 'oil ion of a grey granite seated figure of
Tchai Sgj. rt^'^\ (](] v&, a priest of Ptah and Sekhet
at Memphis. XlVth-XVI I Ith dynasty. [No. 20,731.]
No. [82. Two black stone seated figures of officials.
XII Ith dynasty. . [Nos. 32,185, 32,186.]
No. 1 S3. Lower portion of limestone statue of an
official, which was dedi-
cated to his memory by
his brother Tehuti ; coarse
work. XlVth - XVIIth
dynasty. [No. 2297.]
No. 184. Upper por-
tion of a statue of an
official wearing a heavy
wig. XI I Ith XVI Ith dy-
nasty. [No. 36,851.]'
No. 185. Limestone
standing statue of Sebek-
nekht, the son of Aa,
XI I Ith-X VI Ith dynasty.
[No. 36,850.]
No. 186. Head of a
portrait statue of an official
in crystalline limestone.
This is one of the finest
examples of Egyptian
portrait sculpture known.
The subject was evidently
an old man, and the skill
with which the feature and
characteristics of the face
have been reproduced is worthy of careful study. XVIIth
or XVI I Ith dynasty. [No. 37,883.]
No. 187. Portrait figure in fine limestone, painted
white, of Queen Teta-khart {or, Teta-Sheret)
Statue of Teta-khart. No. 22,558.
PORTRAIT STATUES AND FIGURES.
97
,=v.**Vitf ••
an immediate ancestress of Aahmes, the founder of the
XVIIIth dynasty. It is probable that she was the wife
of Seqenen-Ra Tau-aa I., a king of the XVIIth dynasty,
B.C. 1700. From Thebes. [No. 22,558.]
No. 188. Limestone kneeling figure of an official
holding a stele inscribed with the text of a hymn to
Amen^Ra. XVIIIth dynasty. [No. 29,279.]
No. 189. Similar figure in black granite, inscribed
with a hymn to Ra ; made for Amen-em-apt. XVIIIth
dynasty. [No. 26,270.]
No. 190. Similar figure in
hard, black stone ; inscription
obliterated. XVIIIth dynasty.
From Crocodilopolis.
[No. 37,884.]
No. 191. Similar figure in
limestone, inscribed with the
text of a hymn to Ra. XVIIIth
dynasty. [No. 24,430.]
No. 192. Similar figure in
black granite, inscribed with
the text of a hymn to Ra. ; it
was made for Amen-em heb,
who was surnamed Mahu.
XVIIIth dynasty.
[No. 22,557.]
No. 193. Standing figure,,
with tablet, in sandstone, \ ____
plastered and painted ; it was
made for Usr-Hat, an official Kneeling figure of a Priest.
in the temple of Amen. The No. 24,430.
text is that of a hymn to Ra. XVIIIth dynasty
[No. 2294.]
No. 194. Kneeling limestone figure of Seankh-Amen-
qen, holding an inscribed stele. XVIIIth dynasty.
[No. 21,980.]
No. 195. Kneeling limestone figure of a man wearing
aside lock, as prince(?), and holding an altar. XVIIIth
dynasty. [No. 21,979.]
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98 THIRD EGYPTIAN ROOM — WALL-CASES 104,105.
No. 196. Similar figure holding an altar ; painted
black and red. XVII Ith dynasty. Fine work. Nos.
194 196 were presented by the Earl of Carlisle in [889.
[No. 21,97s.]
No. 197. Grey granite kneeling figure of Ka-em-Uast,
a superintendent of the cattle in the temple of Amen, and
a scribe in the palace of Thothmes IV. On the stele which
he holds is cut a figure of the ram, sacred to Amen, with
floral offerings. XVI I Ith dynasty. [No. 37,885.]
No. 198. Similar figure in painted limestone of Amen-
em-heb, surnamed Mahu, the chief goldsmith of the god
Amen. XVI I Ith dynasty. [No. 29,944.]
No. 199. Lower portion of a seated figure of Ren-
senb, a "clerk of all the works of the king" ~^ L_ J^
^37 1 O ^
; the deceased was a man of high rank, and
held the dignity of hereditary prince. This statue was
dedicated to his memory by the precentor Hra-Amen.
XVI I Ith dynasty. [No. 13,368.]
Nos. 200, 201. Heads of portrait figures of persons
whose names are unknown ; fine work. XVI I Ith dynasty.
[Nos. 2339, 2340.]
No. 202. Steatite figure (sculptor's model ?) of king
Thothmes III. ; B.C. 1550. [No. 13,354.]
No. 203. Fine steatite figure of king Amen-hetep III.,
B.C. 1450. From Thebes. [No. 2275.]
No. 204. Fine steatite figure of a king in the form of
the god Amen-Ra. XVII Ith dynasty. [No. 13,353.]
No. 205. Portion of a standing figure of a king which
was usurped by Heru-em-heb, the last king of the
XVI I Ith dynasty. [No. 37,639.]
Presented by W. McOran Campbell, Esq., 1903.
No. 206. Portrait figures of Pa-shetu, and his wife
Ruau, seated side by side, each with an arm encircling the
other; painted limestone. XVII Ith dynasty.
' [No. 2304.]
PORTRAIT STATUES AND FIGURES.
99
No. 207. Portrait figures of Amen-em-pert, surnamed
Min-Amen (or, Amsu-Amen), an official of the court of
King Thothmes I., and his wife, seated side by side, each
with an arm encircling the other ; painted limestone. The
upper portions of the figures have been restored. XVIIIth
dynast}-. [No. 2303.]
No. 208. Similar figures of Hama i
, and his wife Urt-nefert
the determinative which
follows the man's name
shows that he was a
foreigner. XVIIIth
dynasty. [No. 2302.]
No. 209. Similar
figures of a man and
wife whose names are
wanting. XVIIIth dy-
nasty. [No. 2301.]
No. 210. Seated
figures of Min-mes (or
Amsu-mes), and his
wife and a royal nurse,
who was probably a
relative ; the deceased
was the director of the
festival of Osiris and
Amen, and president of
the palace of the ' divine
wife,' i.e., the reigning
queen (?) or priestess.
The monument was
Figures of Urt-nefert and her husband.
No. 2302.
made by the son of the deceased, who was "chief priest of
Osiris," and bore the same name as his father. XVIIIth
dynasty. [Na 2300.]
No. 211. Painted limestone figure of a scribe holding
before him an image of Osiris. XVIIIth dynasty.
[No. 2292.]
H 2
IOC
THIRD EGYPTIAN ROOM — WALL-CASE 105.
No. 212. Portion of the head of a limestone statue ot
Amen-hetep IV. (Khu-en-Aten ; this portrait of the king
was originally very exact. XVI Nth dynasty.
[No. 13,366.]
Khu-en-Aten (Amen-hetep IV.) No. 24,431. [See page 101.]
PORTRAIT STATUES AND FIGURES.
IOI
No. 213. Torso of a red sandstone statue of Amen-
hetep IV. (Khu-en-Aten), holding a crook ; on his breast
are inscribed the titles of the god Aten. XVIIIth dynasty,
B.C. 1430. From Tel! el-Amarna. [No. 12,278.]
Presented by the Rev. W. J. Loftie, 1883.
No. 214. Portion of a painted stone tablet with a
portrait figure of Amen-hetep IV., in hollow relief, seated
upon a throne ; above him are the rays
of the god Aten, which proceed from the
sun-disk, and which terminate in human
hands. The style of the work is curious
and interesting. XVIIIth dynasty.
[No. 24,431.]
No. 215. Grey granite head of a
statue of Rameses II., B.C. 1330.
XlXth dynasty. [No. 37,886.]
No. 216. Upper portion of a
painted limestone figure of a princess.
XlXth dynasty. [No. 29,280.]
No. 217. Upper portion of a black
basalt statue of a princess ; fine work.
XlXth dynasty. From Thebes.
[No. 37,887.]
No. 218. Fine alabaster standing
figure of a princess ; good work. XlXth
dynasty. [No. 24,619.]
No. 219. Upper portion of a granite
figure of an officer. XlXth dynasty.
[No. 2315.]
No. 220. Seated granite figure of
Herua, son of Ptah-mes. XlXth
dynasty. [No. 14,368.]
Figure of a Princess.
No. 24,619.
No. 221. Steatite kneeling figure of Ptah-meri, the
scribe of the offerings of all the gods, holding the cartouche
of Rameses II. XlXth dynasty. [No. 2291.]
Nos. 222, 223.
dynasty.
Heads of two female figures. XlXth
[Nos. 2381, 2382.]
102 THIRD EGYPTIAN ROOM — WALL-CASKS 106,107.
No. 224. Seated statue of Khert-nefer, dedicated by
his brother Sa-mut, a Judge of Appeal. XXth dynasty.
[No. 2293.]
No. 225. Sculptor's model for the head of a royal
statue. XXth dynasty. [No. 36,849.]
Figure of Ilarua. No. 32,555. [See page 103.]
No. 226. Portion of a statue of Khama-Heru, a
libationer. XlXth or XXth dynasty, [No. 14,403.]
No. 227. Seated, grey granite funeral statue of Pa-ari.
XXth-XXIInd dynasty. ' [No. 37,888.]
No. 228. Similar statue of Amen-hetep, an overseer
of the royal granaries and estates. XXth-XXIInd dynasty.
[No. 32,182.]
PORTRAIT STATUES AND FIGURES.
103
[No. 26,271.]
No. 229. Lower portion of the figure of the royal
scribe Hui, holding a cynocephalus ape on a shrine. From
Tell Basta. XXIInd dynasty. [No. 13,355.]
No. 230. Part of the statuette of Thekeletha I., a king
of the XXIInd dynasty. From Abydos. [No. 37,326.]
Presented by the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1902.
No. 231. Kneeling statue of a king holding a memorial
tablet ; the base and plinth are uninscribed. XXII-XXVth
dynasty.
No. 232. Grey granite
statue of Queen Amen-
artas. XXVth dynasty.
About B.C. 700.
[No. 36,440.]
No. 233. Head of a
statue of an official of Queen
Amenartas. XXVth dy-
nasty. b.c"7oo.
[No. 14,421.]
No. 234. Seated figure
of Harua, a high official of
Queen Amenartas, holding
small seated statues of
Hathor and Tefnut. XXVth
dynasty. [No. 32,555.]
No. 235. Kneeling
statue of Kha .... a scribe ,
and overseer of the treasury
of Amen, holding a shrine
containing a figure of the
god Osiris. XlXth dynasty,
or later. [No. 37,890.]
No. 236. Upper portion of a black basalt statue of an
official ; reign of Psammetichus II., about B.C. 596.
[No. 37,891-]
Xo. 337. Basalt kneeling figure of Khnemu-em-hat,
a priest, holding a shrine with a figure of Osiris ; it was
dedicated to his memory by his son Sa-pekha. XXVIth
dynasty, B.C. 600. [No. 29,478.]
No. 37,890.
104 THIRD EGYPTIAN ROOM— "WALL-CASES IoS, 100.
No. 238. Upper portion of ;i black basalt figure of an
official. XXVlth dynasty, B.C. 600. [No. 37,889.]
No. 239. Upper portion of a black basalt figure of a
goddess or woman. XXVlth dynasty. [No. 37,901.]
No. 240. Head of a black basalt statue of an official.
XXVlth dynasty. [No. 37,893.]
No. 241. Portion of black basalt statue of an official
who flourished in the reign of Psammetichus II. XXVlth
dynasty. Very fine work. [ No. 37,903.]
No. 242. Portion of a seated statue of Heru-utchat.
XXVlth dynasty. [No. 37,902.]
No. 243. Limestone kneeling statue of Psemtek-senb,
a HA prince, or nomarch. XXVlth dynast)-.
[ No. 16,041.]
No. 244. Black granite kneeling statue of Pa-ari-au,
surnamed Nefer-Neler-ab-Ra-em-khut, a priest and judge,
who flourished in the reign of Haa-ab-Ra (Apries), about
B.C. 590. The deceased has the figure of an ape on his knees.
XXVlth dynasty. [No. 37,892.]
No. 245. Black granite kneeling statue of an official.
uninscribed. Fine work. XXVlth dynasty. [No. 37,894.]
No. 246. Head of a granite statue of a king. XXVlth
dynasty, about B.C. 500. [No. 14,391.]
No. 247. Portion of a statue of an official and priest,
Psemthek, having on his breast a figure of Osiris. XXVlth
dynasty. [No. 37,904-]
No. 248. Portion of a limestone figure of a priest of
Ptah. XXVlth dynasty. [No. 17,170.]
No. 249. Portion of a green basalt figure of Khas-
hetep, an official. XXVlth dynasty. [No. 15,082.]
No. 250. Portion of a green schist figure of an official,
a servant of Amen. XXVlth dynasty. [No. 2348.]
No. 251. Fragment of a kneeling figure of a controller
of the temple of Mut, in green schist. XXVlth dynasty.
[No. 14405-]
PORTRAIT STATUES AND FIGURES. 105
No. 252. Black granite statue of an official holding a
figure of Osiris, " lord of life." XXVIth dynasty.
[No. 29,947.]
No. 253. Black stone statue of a hereditary prince
and officer of the royal wardrobe, holding a figure of Osiris.
XXVIth dynasty. ' [No. 32,629.]
No. 254. Portion of a kneeling figure of Utchat-Heru-
resenet, son of Hent-taui. XXIInd-XXVIth dynasty.
[No. 14,366.]
No. 255. Portion of a figure of a priest holding a shrine
of Osiris. XXVIth dynasty. [No. 2288.]
No. 256. Portion of a kneeling statue of Psemthek-
sa-Net, a royal kinsman, holding a shrine containing a
figure of the goddess Neith. XXVIth dynasty.
[No. 2341.]
No. 257. Portion of a black granite statue of a priest
holding a figure of Osiris. On one side of the plinth is a
bilingual inscription in Latin and Greek, meaning " Priest
bearing Osiris." From Berut. Roman period.
[No. 24,784.]
No. 258. Upper portion of a marble figure of a queen
holding a votive offering. XXVIth dynasty.
[No. 14,397-]
No. 259. Gilded stone figure of a goddess or queen.
Ptolemaic period. [No. 2362.]
No. 260. Slab with the figure of a Ptolemaic queen
in relief. Sculptor's model ? B.C. 100. [No. 14,371.]
Nos. 261-264. Group of kings' heads, torso, etc., in
fine limestone, intended to serve as sculptor's models.
Ptolemaic period, about B.C. 250.
[Nos. 13,352, 14,392, 15,077, I3,3i6-1
No. 265. Black granite head of a queen (?). Ptolemaic
period. [No. 2379.]
No. 266. Head of a statue of a priest. XXVIth
dynasty. [No. 25,253.]
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THIRD EGYPTIAN ROOM WALL-CASE 109.
No. 267. Head of a granite portrait statin- of a priest.
Ptolemaic or Roman period. [No. 37,905.]
No. 268. Head of a black basalt statue of a priest.
A hue specimen of Egyptian sculpture under the Romans.
[No. 37.906.]
No. 34,270.
No. 22,750.
No. 269. Black granite portrait statue of a priest in
the temple of Amen-Ra, called Heru-utchat-pe-shere-
Bastet, wearing Roman costume. About a.d. 150.
[No. 34,270.]
No. 270. Burnt limestone figure of an official in
Roman costume, with a Demotic inscription on the base,
From Tanis. About A.D. 200. [No. 22,750.]
Presented by the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1885.
PORTRAIT STATUES AND FIGURES.
I07
No. 271. Head of a sandstone statue of a man. Late
Roman period. From Aswan. [No. 21,551.]
Presented by Colonel G. T. Plunkett, R.E.
No. 272. Portion of a seated statue, in crystalline
limestone, of Tchet-Tehuti-auf-ankh, a high priest and
sacred scribe. XXI Ind dynasty. [No. 37,922.]
Presented by Leigh Sotheby, Esq., 1852.*
No. 273. Unfinished limestone figure of a king,
supported by a deity. Ptolemaic period. [No. 2278.]
fk
No. 9708.
No. 274. A collection of baked clay " cones," stamped
with the names and titles of princes, chiefs, and officials
who were buried in the necropolis of Thebes, and who
flourished between B.C. 1600 and B.C. 1000. The objects
are commonly called sepulchral cones, but we know that
they were intended to represent the conical or triangular
shaped loaves of bread which were placed in the tombs,
and were destined to serve as the food for the ka or
* On the floor of the case.
[08 THIRD EGYPTIAN ROOM— WALL-CASE 07.
"double." Among the many examples of this interesting
class of funeral antiquities may be specially mentioned : —
i. Cone of Meri-mes, prince of Ethiopia, about
B.C. 1200. [ No. 9650.]
2. Cone of Menthu-em-hat, a scribe and fourth priest
of Amen-Ra. About B.C. 1400. [No. 35,681.]
3. Cones of Sebek-mes, a chief libationer, B.C. 1400.
[Nos. 35,684, 35,685.]
4. Cones of Nefer-heb-f, a priest of Amen-hetep II.,
B.C. 1500. [Xos. 9679, 9690, 9684, 9686.]
5. Cone of Neb-seni, a priest, B.C. 1600. Presented by
Mrs. Hawker, 1900. [No. 33,904.]
6. Cone of Ka[n]ure, a superintendent of the Mdtckaiu,
a tribe of blacks who policed Thebes. It is
interesting to note that this cone has a double
impression. XlXth dynasty, B.C. 1300.
[No. 9729.]
7. Cone of Rere -^^ -^& a superintendent of the
Matchaiu, B.C. 1300. [No. 35,650.]
8. Cone of a "steward of the temple of Khensu '
nAJL^V XXth d>'nasl>'- I X;)- 9641.]
9. Cone of Nen-tcheser-ka (?) T\ , a libationer,
B.C. 1500. [No. 9670.]
On a shelf which runs round the base of Wall-Cases
97 in is displayed a large miscellaneous collection of
Canopic Jars ; see Guide to the First and Second
Egyptian Rooms, p. 124. On the floor of these cases
will be found the following : — [No. ^6,go6.]
No. 275. A miscellaneous collection of flint chips of
the Neolithic period. No. 36,906.]
No. 276. Portion of a fossilized palm tree cut and
polished to show the grain and fibre. From the fossil
remains of the great forest which once existed in the
desert to the east of Wadi Haifa. [No. 36,8^3.]
PORTRAIT STATUES AND FIGURES. 109
No. 277. Rungs and ropes from a ladder. [No. 5042.]
No. 278. A miscellaneous collection of oars, ropes,
and portions of furniture for boats ; of various periods,
but chiefly of the New Empire, i.e., after B.C. 1600.
No. 279. Wooden spiked club, probably from Nubia.
[No. 5508.]
No. 280. A collection of foundation deposits, con-
sisting of a reed mat, a reed vase stand, a terra-cotta vase,
model of sledge for transporting stone (?), a bronze axe-
head, inscribed with the name of Queen Hatshepset,
a model of a hoe, and a model of a wooden clamp used to
fasten together limestone blocks. From the Great Temple
at Der el-Bahari,
Thebes, B.C. 1550.
Presented by the
Egypt Exploration
Fund. [No. 26,276.]
No. 281. A group
of four wooden
hoes. After B.C.
1600.
[Nos. 22, 863, 5407, " Ko- 22)86,
18,154, 5412.]
No. 282. A collection of house painters' pots and
brushes ; in some of the former remains of the paint are
still to be seen. After B.C. 1600. [Nos. 5992 ff.]
No. 283. A collection of wooden stamps used by
plasterers and brickmakers, several of which are inscribed.
Among these may be noticed : —
1. Stamp with the name of Amen-hetep III., B.C. 1450.
f)f^=^n^- [No. 5993-]
2. Stamp of the granaries of the Temple of Ptah, of
the South Wall, at Memphis. [No. 5595.]
3. Long wooden stamp inscribed " Hero, son ot
Ptolemy," HPUJNTTTO\eM\BOY- BC I00'
or later. [No. 3220.]
I 10 THIRD EGYPTIAN ROOM WALL-CASES IO4-I06.
No 584. A drinking horn. [Xo. 6037.]
No. 285. Massive wooden wheel of a cart or trolley
for the transport of building materials. From Dcr
el-Bahari, B.c. 1550. Presented by the Egypt Exploration
Fund, [898. [No. 29,943.]
A collection of baked clay models of altars, with
funeral offerings, many of which are in the form of houses,
with the offerings spread in the courtyards. Vlth to
XXIInd dynasties. The follow ing are the most interesting
examples: —
286 a-c. Three plates with the representations of offerings
upon them, i.e., oxen with tied feet, haunches of meat,
bread-cakes, etc. [Nos. 24,330, 36,375, 36,376.]
287. Model of a house, or half of a tomb, with the
offerings in front of it ; in the middle are two
gutters for carrying off the blood of the slain beasts.
Vlth dynasty. [Xo. 36,^4.]
288. Stone model of a mastaba tomb of the Vlth
dynasty. The roof is supposed to be removed,
and the spectator to be taking a bird's eye view
of the interior. The rectangular cavity represents
the tomb chamber, and the round hollow on one
side of it is apparently intended to represent the
pit which leads to the mummy chamber. The
meaning of the smaller perforations is not
apparent. On the sides arc modelled the false-
doors of the mastaba and the characteristic
crenellations of its brickwork. Vlth dynasty.
[No. 36,903-]
289. Baked clay model of the front of a tomb, with a
colonnaded entrance, and offerings in front. In the
centre of the court is the rectangular tank for liba-
tions, etc., blood from the victims, with a single
overflow gutter. Vlth-XIIIth dynasty.
[Xo. 32,613.]
290. Model of a house with two rooms, each having a
separate entrance ; above is a flat roof (not repre-
sented), with a staircase leading up to it on one
side. Against the opposite wall stands a bench
PORTRAIT STATUES AND FIGURES.
Ill
with three zirat, or jars for filtering water, and in
front are the offerings and a tank with two gutters.
Vlth dynasty. [No. 32,609.]
291. Model of a two-storied house. The main entrance
is in the centre of the front, and admits to the
lower story only ; the upper story, which consists
of a single small room, in front of which stands a
water-jar, is approached by a staircase outside the
house, and is drained by a gutter which passes
through the side wall. The lower story is lighted
by a single window, having a single columnar
mullion. In the courtyard are the offerings.
Xllth dynasty. [No. 32,610.]
Model of a House. No. 32,610.
292. Model of a two-storied house, with two stair-
cases leading to upper story, and continued up
to the roof; the house is provided with a balcony.
In the courtyard are the offerings. Xllth dynasty,
or earlier. [No. 22,783.]
293. Model of a hut with a rounded roof; against a
wall in the courtyard is a bench with water-pots,
II-1 THIRD EGYPTIAN ROOM WALL-CASES III 114.
and in the yard itself is a lank with a gutter by
which the blood of the victims was remov< d. Near
the tank are the offerings. Vlth dynasty.
[No. 32,612.]
14. Model of a house and courtyard, enclosed by
a high wall, with a staircase leading up to the roof.
In the courtyard arc the offerings, including an ox
with the feet tied together, and a pillar altar. The
gutter passes through the wall by two openings.
Vlth Xllth dynasty. ' [No. 32,6] i.j
295. Model of a hut, containing a bench, and sup-
ported by a central pillar. On the left is a stand
for water-jars, and in the space before the hut is the
figure of a man seated on the ground, and pouring
out wine from a large vessel ; round about lie the
offerings. The courtyard is provided with a double
gutter. X 1 1 tli dynasty, or earlier. [No. 22,782. |
296. Four models of houses in stone and clay.
After the XVIIIth dynasty.
I \os. 2462, 18,324, 27,526, 36,904.]
WALL-CASES 111-114. Here is exhibited a collec-
tion of painted wooden sepulchral boxes, which were
used to hold Canopic* jars and ushabtiu* figures ; they
belong to the period which lies between the Xlth and the
XXXth dynasties, i.e., between B.C. 2500 and B.C. 350. Of
special interest are the following: —
No. 1 . ( '.s/'<7/V/7/-figure box, with two divisions, made for
Astit l (1(1 o a singer of Amen. XX 1st dynasty. From
Der el-Bahari. Presented by the Egyptian Government,
[893. [No. 24,895.]
No. 2. Tainted sepulchral box of Kua-tep. Xlth
dynasty. [ No. 34,272.]
No. 3. Ushabtiu box, painted with figures of the gods,
and inscribed for Tche-hra. An interesting scene is that
in which Anpu and Ap-uat are seen drawing back the bolts
of the doors of Re-stau, or the tomb. From Abydos.
XXXth dynasty. Presented by the Egypt Exploration
Fund, 1902. [Xo. 37,339-]
* See Guide to the First and Second Egyptian Rooms, pp. 124, 126.
BOXES FOR USHABTIU FIGURES.
II
No. 4. Box for Canopic jars, made for the lady Sat-
pi or Satapa. Xllth dynasty. From Al-Barsha.
[No. 35,286.]
No. 5. Ushabtiu box, in three divisions, made for
Nesi-neb-taui, a singer of Amen. XXIst dynasty, B.C.
1050. From Der el-Bahari. Presented by the Egyptian
Government, 1893. [No. 24,894.]
No. 6. Sepulchral box containing fruit of the dum
palm ; this is an offering which was made for Aset-em-
kheb, the sistrum bearer of Amen-Ra, at Thebes. About
B.C. 900. [No. 8532.]
No. 7. Ushabtiu box, painted white ; uninscribed.
About B.C. 1050. Presented by the EgyjDtian Government,
1893- [No. 24,893.]
No. 8. Painted wooden sepulchral box, made in the
shape of a pylon. The sides are ornamented with figures
of gods and amulets. From Akhmim, B.C. 300.
[No. 8526.]
No. 9. Clay sepulchral box, painted white, made for
Nefer-hetep, the son of Thetui
a \\
Xllth dynasty.
[No. 36,500.]
i i I l llikii I i,\ I II \\ Rl H iM WALL-CASES i I 1 i I
No. lo. Massive painted wooden Canopic jar box,
inscribed with the name of Kua-tep, a high priestly official,
[nside are the foui alabaster jars, with painted wooden
heads, to represent the four children oi Horus. Xlth
dynasty. From Al-Barsha. [No. 30,838.]
No. 11. Massive painted wooden Canopi< jar box,
inscribed with the name of Sen, the steward of the palace.
The inside of the box is inscribed with religious texts in
linear hieroglyphics, and contains lour alabaster jars, head
less and empty. Xlth or Xllth dynasty. From Al-Barsha.
[No. 30,722.]
Box for Ushabtiu Figures. No. 24.894.
WALL-CASES 115 118. No. 1. Sepulchral box
painted with a scene in which the deceased, Ta-Aut, a
singing woman of Amen, is represented in adoration before
Ra-Harmachis, Maat, and Isis. XXI Ind dynasty.
[No. 8527.]
No. 2. Baked clay ushabtiu figure box, with two
divisions, and a rough inscription in hieratic. XXth
XX llnd dynasty. [No. 29,675.]
BOXES FOR USHABT1U FIGURES. 1 15
No. 3. Wooden sepulchral box, which was made for
Amen-hetep, a priest and doorkeeper in the temple of
Amen in Karnak ; the inscription is painted in black on a
white ground. The box contains a large number of blue
glazed faience ushabtiu figures, of which specimens are
exhibited on the shelf. XXIInd dynasty or later.
[No. 35,290.]
No. 4, Painted wooden ushabtiu box, made for " the
chief cantor of the temple of Amen," whose name was
Meri, -<s>- (1(1 ; the deceased was the son of a man who
held the same office, and was called "The Dwarf"
Pa-nemem. On the cover is the
picture of a boat. After the XXIInd dynasty.
[No. 22,820.]
No. 5. Wooden sepulchral box, similar in shape and
style to No. 3, which was made for Amen-hetep, the son of
Aha-shere (J QA [TJ ¥*\ !f^> a priest and doorkeeper in the
temple of Amen ; his father held like offices. The box
contains a large number of blue glazed faience ushabtiu
figures, specimens of which are exhibited on the shelf.
XXIInd dynasty, or later. [No. 35,289.]
No. 6. Small, brightly painted wooden sepulchral box.
On one side is a figure of the deceased Apu, who held the
office of "incense thrower" (thurifer) i>^\T<^_ o^fi,
burning incense before Osiris, and on the other we see the
goddess Nut, who appears from out of a sycamore tree,
pouring out celestial water upon the hands of the wife of
the deceased and upon a human-headed hawk, the emblem
of her soul. XXIst dynasty, B.C. 1000. [No. 35,648.]
No. 7. Painted wooden ushabtiu box, with figures of
Isis and Nephthys, and symbols of the Sun and Moon,
East and West, joy, eternity, gold, etc. XXVIth dynasty.
[No. 35,764.]
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lid THIRD EGYPTIAN ROl >M W Ml.-' \ ES 115 1 | '
No. 8. Painted wooden ushabtiu box of Aset-it, with a
figure of tin-' deceased adoring the four children of Horus.
On the end is the Utchat, or Eye of Horus (or Ra).
XXlInd dynasty. [ No. 854 $.]
No. 9. Large sepulchral chest for holding Canopic jars,
made in the form of a pylon, and mounted on runners, so
that it might be drawn to the tomb in the funeral proces-
sion. On the sides are figures of deities, and texts painted
in white on a black ground ; on the outside of the cover is
a figure of Nut. The chest was made for Nebi ^~7 J (1(1 )fa.
The four Canopic jars arc made of alabaster, and ha\ c
wooden heads. XYIIIth or XlXth dynasty.
[No. 35,808.]
No. 10. Similar sepulchral chest, but less well pre-
served ; it was made for a Kher-heb, or precentor of Amen,
Amen-em-hat. XYIIIth or XlXth dynasty.
[No. 35,809.]
Nos. II, 12. Two large funeral chests, made in the
form of pylons, and painted with figures of gods, amulets,
etc. Ptolemaic period. From Akhmlm.
[ Nos. 18,210, [8,2] 1. 1
No. 13. Framework of a canopy of a bier, the cornice
of which is ornamented with a row of unci wearing disks.
Roman period. From Thebes. [No. 36,905.]
No. 14. Plank from the end of a sepulchral box which
seem-, to have been made: for an official who flourished in
the time of Caesar Germanicus (?) bust century A.D.
[No. 22,935.]
Presented by F. G. Hilton Price, Esq., 1898.
WALL-CASES 119 132. Figures of the Gods of
Egypt. In these cases is grouped a collection of figures
of Egyptian gods and sacred animals which is probably
the largest in the world, and in one form or another there
is hardly a god of importance who is not represented in it.
In the upper group of shelves the figures are of bronze,
and nearly all of them served as votive offerings; many
were placed originally in gilded metal shrines in temples,
FIGURES <)F GODS AND SACRED ANIMALS. T T/
or in private houses, wherein their presence was believed to
ensure the protection and favour of the gods whom they
represented. The plainer and coarser figures were buried
under the doors or corners of houses, and at the boundaries
of fields and estates, in order to turn aside from those who
made them the attacks of evil influences and spirits, and
hostile foreign gods, who were bent on enlarging the space
through which they roamed. The Egyptians, in common
with many other ancient nations, believed that figures of
gods could be inhabited by the gods whom they repre-
sented, just as statues of human beings were supposed
to form the abodes of the " doubles " of those in whose
likeness they were made. Hence it became customary
for the man who purchased a figure and dedicated it
to the god, to have his own name inscribed upon it, so
that when the god visited the figure of himself he might
see the name of him that dedicated it, and keep him in
remembrance.
The greater number of small figures of the gods, chiefly
in Egyptian porcelain, which stand on the second group of
shelves, were attached to the bodies of the dead, either on
necklaces or as pendants, or were laid between the linen
swathings of mummified bodies, with the view of securing
the protection of the gods thus represented on behalf of
the deceased. The 42nd Chapter of the Book of the Dead,
which deals with the deification of the members of the
body, sets forth what god is to be associated with what
member, and there is no doubt that, when the rubric to the
chapter was fully carried out, " not a limb of the deceased
was without a god." In the Fourth Egyptian Room
(Table-Case K) is exhibited a set of figures of the gods
and amulets taken from a mummy ; the figure of Anubis
lay on the breast, and the figures of Isis, Nephthys, Thoth,
and another god lay in a row over the diaphragm. These
objects date from the XXVIth dynasty, and at that period
the figures of gods buried with mummies were fewer than
in the period immediately preceding.
On the floor of these cases are a large number ot
wooden figures of the gods and sacred animals, which
were placed either in tombs to protect the coffins and their
occupants, or were set up in the temples as votive offerings.
ri8 THIRD EGYPTIAN ROOM WALL-CASES [10, 132.
The Greek historian Herodotus affirms ii. 34 thai the
Egyptians were "beyond measure scrupulous in all matters
appertaining t) religion," and the more the hieroglyphic
inscriptions are studied, the more true this remark is found
to lie. No nation of historic antiquity was more religious
than the Egyptians, and among none did religious ceremo-
nial and funeral observances form a larger part of the daily
life of both priests and people than among the inhabitants
of the Valley of the Nile between the foot of the Sei ond
Cataract and the sea. Recent discoveries have proved that
long before the reign of Mena, or Menes, the first historical
king of Egypt, the Nile Valley was occupied by a race of
men and women of slender build, who had long narrow
heads, long hands, with tapering fingers, feet with high
insteps, reddish hair, and probably blue eyes.* Those
people flourished in the latter part of the Neolithic period,
but it is impossible to say whether they were indigenous
to the Nile Valley or not ; it is, however, pretty certain
that the)- must be considered to be of north-east African
origin, and that they were in no way akin to negro or
negroid tribes. The graves of large numbers of prc-
dynastic Egyptians of this class have been found at
Gebelen, Nakada, and Abydos, and they prove that even
at that remote period, which can hardly be later than
B.C. 5000, the people believed in a future life of some kind.
What kind of life it was cannot be said, but it must have
been of a material character, not unlike that which was
led by man on this earth at that time, and the place where it
was to be lived was thought to be situated at some distance
from the present world. Well-to-do relatives of the dead
placed a supply of food in the graves to sustain them on
their journey, and they provided them with flint weapons
wherewith to hunt the game which was assumed to exist
in the world beyond the grave, and with earthenware
vessels filled with the substances which were considered to
be essential for the comfort and well-being of the body.
We possess no inscriptions or texts of this period, because
the Egyptians could not then write, and it is therefore
unknown what were the exact views which were held on
* See the ivory figure with inlaid lapis-lazuli eyes in Table-Case L.
WORSHIP OF OSIRIS. 119
the subject of tne future life ; but it is perfectly certain that
the oldest Egyptians known to us both believed in the
existence of a heaven and in the possibility of a renewal
of life after death on this earth. In the latter part of the
Neolithic period nothing is known of the predynastic
Egyptian conception of God ; but there is reason for thinking
that the Egyptian peopled heaven with a number of beings
who may be termed " gods " ; at the same time he certainly
paid homage or worship to certain animals, fish, reptiles,
etc., e.g., the bull, cow, crocodile, bear, hippopotamus,
tortoise or turtle, cuttle-fish, etc. In the dynastic period
only the animal of the species which possessed certain
distinctive marks was regarded as sacred, i.e., the incarna-
tion of a god, but whether this idea was evolved in
pre-dynastic times cannot be said ; it is, however, probable,
for the more that is known of the details of the Egyptian
religion of the dynastic period, the more clear it becomes
that its fundamental conceptions are derived from the pre-
dynastic inhabitants of the country. It is, moreover,
impossible to believe that the animals chosen for worship
were in every respect similar to all the others of the
species to which they belonged. The cult of quadrupeds,
birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., is one of the most persistent
characteristics of the Egyptian religion, and it survived the
introduction of Christianity into Egypt by two or three
centuries.
Side by side with the cult of animals there flourished
also, probably in the predynastic period, the worship of the
Man-god Asar 11 or Osiris, with whom were associated
his sister-wife Ast or Isis, and a small group of cognate
gods. In the earliest times Osiris appears to have been a
water god, or perhaps the god of an arm of the Nile in the
Delta, but the tradition of the dynastic period identified him
with a king who had once reigned upon earth, and who had
been foully murdered by his brother, but who, through the
words of power which were uttered by Isis, had been raised
from the dead, and appointed the everlasting king and
judge of the Underworld. During the rule of the 1st
dynast)7 some important development of the worship of
Osiris took place, and the fifth king of the dynasty, who was
120 I llll;i i EGYPTIAN ROOM \\ \ t I -< VSES i 10 \ W
called Si mm, is mentioned in connexion with the editing
or writing ol some portion of the grcal national funeral
work which was called the " Book of Coming Forth by I >av "
PER i M-hru S??\ rn %>w), but is now commonly
known as the " Book of the Dead." In the oldest religious
texts known it is tacitly assumed that the reader is well
acquainted with the details of the life and death, and r< sur
rection of ( )siris, who is treated throughout as the greatest of
all the gods whose names are mentioned in such works,
and as the cause and source of the resurrection and ever-
lasting life. From the allusions found in these texts, we
may conclude that in several parts of Egypt religious
ceremonies partaking of the nature of miracle plays had
been performed annually from time immemorial, with the
object ol commemorating the principal events in the original
tragedy of Osiris, and it is clear that such ceremonies were
performed with all the realism which is characteristii of
half-savage, primitive peoples, long after the Egyptians had
become, outwardly at least, highly civilised.
The Book of the Dead is, at base, the book of the cult
of Osiris, and the guide which had the power of teaching
the deceased how to arrive at the kingdom of that god ;
and its principal dogmas and beliefs were clung to
tenaciously in certain parts of Egypt long after the edict
against paganism was promulgated by the orthodox
Emperor Theodosius the Great, in December, a.D. 381
When the great image of Serapis, the god wno was
supposed to contain the souls of Osiris and Ptah, was
destroyed in 389 by the Christians, the peoples of the
Delta quietly abandoned their old cult, but those- who lived
in Upper Egypt did not do so, and the worship of Osiris
and I sis lasted at Philae until the reign ol Justinian
(527 565)- The reason for the popularity of the Osiris cult
is easy to find. In the first place it absorbed without
difficult)- many of the old beliefs connected with the
cult of sacred animals, birds, etc., and its principal gods
appeared in forms half-human and half-animal, or half-
human and half-bird, or wholly animal, and permitted
'* His name was formerly read " Hesepti.
SUN-WORSHIP.
121
the retention of many ancient half-savage rites and
customs. Next, it promised to man a resurrection from
the dead and an eternal life to be passed in a fertile well-
watered region, where the comforts and pleasures of life were
abundant, and where there was no labour to be performed.
Now, on the eastern frontier of Egypt, and in Syria on
the north-east, there lived many tribes and peoples whose
principal object of worship was the SUN, and as numbers
of these made their way into
Egypt and settled down in
the region which lay between
the Bitter Lakes and Hcli-
opolis, the cult of the sun-
god grew and flourished in
the Eastern Delta. Another
form of sun-worship, which
eventually coalesced with
this, was introduced into
Egypt by conquerors who
came from Asiatic territory
at a different period, who
invaded the country in pre-
dynastic times, and, having
enslaved the inhabitants,
settled down there, and
worshipped the god who was
best known to them, i.e.. a form
of the sun-god, the closest
form of which was at that
time Horus, or Horus-Ra.
During the first three
dynasties the sun-worship-
pers, or followers of Ra, do not appear to have possessed any
extraordinary political influence, but in the beginning of the
Vth dynasty their priests succeeded in acquiring consider-
able power, and their god Ra became the great god of Egypt,
and the king began to call himself " son of Ra," and to adopt
a second name as such. The centre of the worship
of Ra at this period was Heliopolis, and the priests of
this place formulated a system of solar theology, in which
the local sun-god Temu, who was worshipped under the
Temu, or Atmu.
122 THIRD EGYPTIAN ROOM— WALL-CASES l 10 132.
form of a man, was made to assume the headship ol a
pant ^, or "company " of the gods. A " < ompany " mighl
consist of nine or more gods, but nine was the ordinary
number, and the members of the "Company of Annu /.<•.,
Heliopolis were: — Tern, Shu, Tefnut, Seb, Nut, Osiris,
Isis, Set, Nephthys ; to these were sometimes added Thoth,
Horus, Ka, etc. Now, as the Egyptians divided the world
into three parts, viz., heaven, earth, and underworld, it was
necessary to provide each division with its company of
gods, and thus there were three companies of gods in the
Heliopolitan system, which contained at least twenty-seven
When the first sun-worshippers
gods, and was expressed in writing thus
acqcqcqcqcicqcqcqcqcqcqcicqcq
a cj a acacia a
entered Egypt, they merged all the ancient native animal
gods in their own gods, and the Sun-god Ra was
depicted by them in the form of a hawk-headed man,
because the hawk was regarded as a sun-bird by the pre-
dynastic Egyptians. The gods who were associated with
him were chosen from a large number of local gods, who
were in turn chosen from the creatures, animate and
inanimate, which were worshipped in predynastic times.
The priests of Heliopolis made the gods of their " company "
to include ancient gods of every kind, and they absorbed
into their theological system legends and beliefs which had
come down to them from their predynastic ancestors ; in
fact, they seem to have endeavoured to make their system -
of religion as much as possible like the old one, with which
the people were so well acquainted. Their chief god Tern,
or Temu, included the sun-gods Ra and Khepera, with
their feminine counterparts, and was believed to have
produced from himself Shu and Tefnut, the deities of air,
or sunlight, and water respectively ; these three formed the
great triad of Heliopolis, one of the oldest of the triads of
Egypt. Seb and Nut represented all the ancient native
gods of sky and earth, and the early legends concerning
them were cjuietly adapted to the new theological system
of the place. Osiris and Isis, together with their allied
gods Set, Nephthys, Horus, Anubis, etc., as the)-
Amen, god of thebes. 123
represented the ancient native gods of the dead, were intro-
duced in a body into the Heliopolitan company of gods,
but the parts which they played appear to have been
modified somewhat. Speaking generally, the Heliopolitan
system was tolerant, and it admitted within its divine
company almost any ancient local god. It represented a
compromise, of course, and was a mixture of animal and
solar cults, but it satisfied the inhabitants of Lower Egypt
for several centuries, and was even copied in some matters
by the theologians of Herakleopolis, and later even by
those of Thebes.
At the close of the Vlth dynasty, about B.C. 3100, the
sovereignty passed from Memphis, and the supreme
ecclesiastical power from Heliopolis, and the princes of
Herakleopolis made themselves practically masters of the
country between Memphis and Thebes. As a result the
gods of Herakleopolis assumed prominent positions in
the land, and the religious beliefs and legends of their
priests were grafted on to the theological system of
Heliopolis. In process of time the authority of the
Herakleopolitans was broken by the princes of Thebes,
and Amen, whose name means the " Hidden One," the
local god of that city, was proclaimed the " king of the
gods." During the Xllth dynasty (B.C. 2500-2300) the
chief shrine of Amen was founded, or rebuilt, at Thebes,
on the spot which is marked by the ruins of Karnak, and
his priests began to ascribe to him the powers, and titles,
and attributes of the oldest and greatest gods of Egypt ;
the powers assigned to him included those of all the
animal and solar gods who had been worshipped in the
country. Under the XVI I th dynasty, B.C. 1700, the
Thebans succeeded in gaining the victory in a decisive
battle between themselves and the peoples of northern
Egypt, and the glory and power of Amen, to whom the
victory was attributed, grew still greater. The kings of
the XVIIIth dynasty enlarged his temple, and endowed
the priests with lands and estates, and bestowed upon them
many far-reaching privileges. The brotherhood of the
priests of Amen was one of the richest and most powerful
sacerdotal bodies in ancient Egypt, and they maintained
and increased their influence with such skill, that under
I ! | I II ll:i> El :\ I'll \ \ R( >l >M W W.I -C V-l S I IO, 1
one of tin- last of the Rameses kings they obtaini d about
B.C. [ 100) authority to levy taxes on the people, and soon
afterwards the high priest of Amen became king of Upper
Egypt. Speaking generally, Amen was regarded as a
great creative god, who united within himself the powers
of the solar gods and the gods of generation and of nature ;
there is no prool that he was considered to be a god of the
dead in the earliest times, but after the XlXth dynasty
(B.C. [400 1200) an attempt seems to have been made to
make him king of the gods of the dead, and, in fact, to
usurp the position and attributes of Osiris.
Under the XVII Ith dynasty the supremacy of Amen
was challenged seriously by Amen-hetep IV., the leader
of the Aten heresy. Of the origin of the god Aten
nothing is known, but there is no doubt that his character
was solar, and that lie was the god of the disk of the sun ;
the word Aten menus "disk," but the peculiar dogi
which attached to the god himsi It have not yet been fully
made out. It seems, however, that Aten was regarded as
the material body of the sun in which Ra dwelt, and also
as the visible emblem of the Sun-god; and though fol-
lowers of Aten were willing to acknowledge the ancient
solar £ods Heru-khuti ' I larmat his), Ra-Heru-khuti, etc.,
they refused absolutely to admit the claims of Amen, or
Amen-Ra, to be the " king of the gods." Amen-hetep IV.
asserted the supremacy of .Aten in a very definite manner,
and his hatred of the god Amen brought him into conflict
with the priests of Amen in Thebes. For the first four
years of his reign he disputed their contentions vigorously,
but finding that they were backed by all the priesthood
in the city, and that the people sided with them, he
forsook Thebes and settled in a place on the Nile near
the modern village of Tell el-'Amarna ; lure he built a
beautiful palace and temple, wherein no bloody sacrifice
was offered up, but only incense, flowers, and fruits. The
new city was called " Khut Aten," or " I lorizon of Aten,"
the temple was called Het-Benben, or "House of the
Obelisk," and the king changed his own name from
"Amen-hetep" to " Khu-eji-Aten," i.e., " Glory (or spirit
of Aten." Before he left Thebes he promulgated the edicl
for obliterating the name of Amen and his figure from
IDEAS OF MONOTHEISM. 1 25
every monument in Egypt, and though this was only
partially carried out, it practically alienated from- him the
whole of the people of Upper Egypt. Amen-hetep IV., or
Khu-en-Aten, lived in his new city for ten or twelve
years, and died at a comparatively early age ; in less than
twenty-five years after his death his city was deserted, the
sanctuary of his god was desecrated, his followers were
scattered, and the triumph of Amen was complete.
The religious texts which were written at Thebes at
this period prove that the Egyptians, though accustomed
to the worship of many gods, were well acquainted with
the idea of monotheism, and numerous passages in the
hymns and other works of all periods prove that they
believed in the existence of a Being who was immortal,
invisible, omnipotent, omnipresent, and eternal, like the
Christian God. In a manner, the Egyptian religion
developed in two directions, i.e., towards polytheism and
towards monotheism, but this contradiction is easily
explained when we remember that the gods and goddesses
of Egypt were only forms, or personifications, of the gods
of nature. Heru, Heru-ur, Heru-khuti, Heru-p-khart, Ra,
Ptah, Tcmii, Khepera, etc., are all forms of the Sun-god,
and Isis, Uatchet, Neith, and several other goddesses, are
only forms or aspects of a predynastic goddess whose
attributes and names changed at different periods and in
different places. In fact, both priests and people united
the liveliest sentiment of the spirituality of God to the
coarsest representations of different divinities, and a clear
and definite belief in the unity of God to an extremely
great multitude of divine persons. The popular form of
belief was a mixture of crude materialistic ideas and a
number of spiritual conceptions of the most exalted
character.
Under the XVIIIth and XlXth dynasties it became
fashionable among royal personages to have copies of
religious works, i.e., the " Books of the Underworld," other
than the well-known Book of the Dead, inscribed upon
their tombs, and these appear to have been the outcome of
a distinct form of religious thought in respect of the future
life. The followers of Osiris, as we know from the Book
of the Dead, hoped to attain after death to the Sekhet-
i •" r 1 1 1 K I > EGYPTIAN ROOM— WALL-CASES I 19- i
hetepu, or "Fields of Peace," where they expected to
lead to all eternity an existence which had much in
common with that lived by prosperous Egyptians in the
fertile lands of the 1 )elta. ()n the other hand, those who
were worshippers of the Sun aimed at attaining to a eat
in the boat of the Sun, where they hoped to become beings
of the same nature as K.i, whose sustenance would be the
divine meat and drink of heaven, and whose apparel would
In- light. They hoped to travel where lie travelled, and to
rise on the world each day as he did, and to be prote< ted
by him to all eternity. To secure such an existence it was
necessary for a man to perform all the precepts of the
Egyptian religion on earth, and to provide himself with
amulets, words of power, magical texts, etc., for without
such no soul might hope to pass successfully through the
region of the sunset called Amentet, i.e., the "hidden " or
unseen place, and reach the Tuat, where he would be able
to step into the " Boat of Millions of Years."
According to the doctrine of the Books of the Under-
world, Amentet contained the souls of countless beings,
who either through their sins, or because they had been
careless of their duties, or because their relatives and
friends had failed to provide them with the necessary
amulets or words of power, were doomed to remain there,
apparently, for ever. Amentet was a place of darkness and
terror, and it was the abode of terrible devils and monsters
of every description, but the souls therein were cheered
once each day by the Sun-god Ra, who passed through it
as he journeyed from the place where he set to that where
he rose in the morning. The presence of the god brought
light and a short period of refreshing daily, but as soon as
he reached the end of Amentet, and passed through into
the next section of the Underworld, those who were in his
boat could hear, as the doors closed after him, the weeping
and wailing of the souls who were unable to follow him,
and who were forced to remain in darkness until the
Sun-god re-visited them next day. Every nome of Egypt
was provided with its own underworld, and each under-
world possessed its own characteristic inhabitants ; the
Sun-god Ra was lord of every one of these, except the
kingdom of Osiris. Under the New Empire the votaries
HERU-UR, OR HORUS THE ELDER.
127
of Ra formed a numerous and powerful body, and their
theologians and priests endeavoured to impress their views
on the country in general. This, however, they failed to
do, and the old indigenous cult of the deified man Osiris,
who had obtained immortality for himself, and made it
possible for those who believed in him to obtain it also,
continued to keep a firm hold throughout Egypt during
the whole of the dynastic period. The Ptolemies supported
and amplified the cult of Osiris, and thus, when the
Romans took possession of
Egypt, B.C. 57, the solar
cults occupied an inferior
place in the affections of the
people, and the Egyptians
continued to live and die as
they had done for about five
thousand years, hoping in
Osiris, and believing that he
was able to give them ever-
lasting life.
WALL-CASES — 119-132.
Bronze figures of the gods.
Wall-Case 132, Upper Shelf.
Heru-ur, i.e., " Horus the
Aged," the Haroeris of the
Greeks, so called to dis-
tinguish him from Heru-pa-
khart, or Harpocrates, i.e.,
" Horus the Younger." He
has the form of a man with
the head of a hawk, and
under the form of a hawk Heru-ur.
is one of the oldest of the
Egyptian gods. In the illustration he wears the crowns
of the South and North. The word " Heru " means l; he
who is above," but later the god came to symbolize the
face of heaven, when the sun was the right eye of the god,
and the moon the left. The most interesting examples of
the god here exhibited are : —
1. Bronze seated figure of Heru-ur, hawk-headed, and
wearing the double crown ; behind him is an obelisk,
l-'S THIRD EGYPTIAN ROOM -WALK &.SES [19 [32.
the symbol of the sun. The obelisk is called benben,
and the chief solar temple in Heliopolis, the Sun-
city, was called Het-Benben, i.e., "house of the
obelisk." [No. 29,608.]
2. Bronze standing figure of Heru-ur, on a double
pedestal. | No. ^30.]
The god Horus possessed fourteen other forms at least,
and among these the most important was "Horus of
1. Heru-Behutet.
ieru-Behutet spearing
hippopotamus.
Behutet," i.e., Horus of Edfu ; he represented Horus at
mid-day, and so typified the greatest power of the heat
of the sun. Horus of Behufet was the god of the people
who invaded Egypt from some region in or near southern
Arabia, and who conquered the Egyptians in some measure
because they were armed with metal weapons. The com-
panions of the god are generally known in the inscriptions
as the " Shemsu Heru," or "Followers of Horus," and
THE GODS OF EGYPT — RA.
129
as the " Mesniu " or " Blacksmiths." In illustration No. 1
the god wears the double crown, and in No. 2 we see him
holding his characteristic weapon/and spearing a crocodile.
Ra is one of the oldest forms of the Sun-god in Egypt.
He was regarded as the maker and creator of the world,
and gods, and men, and it is probable that his name has a
meaning something like " operative (or creative) power."
His worship was associated with that of Heru, the Sky-
god, at a very early period, and the hawk was one of his
symbols. The visible emblem of Ra
was the sun, which was supposed to
sail across the sky in two boats ; the
morning boat was called " Matet,"
and the evening boat " Sektet " ;
during the night he passed through
the region called the Tuat, where he
did battle with the hosts of darkness,
and whence he emerged victorious each
morning. From the Xllth dynasty
onwards the attributes of Ra were trans-
ferred to those of Amen, the " Hidden
god," who was originally nothing but
a local god of Thebes, and of little
importance. The fortunes of war,
which made the princes and kings of
Thebes victorious under the Xlthand
XVIIth dynasties, raised Amen to
the position of " King of the gods."
Ra is depicted in the form of a hawk-
headed man, with the solar disk,
surrounded by a serpent twined
round it, on his head. The chief
characteristic of Amen, or Amen-Ra,
is the two long plumes which stand above a close-fitting
cap or helmet. The examples of Ra of special interest
are : —
No. 3. Bronze standing figure of Ra, hawk-headed ; the
eyes are inlaid with gold and garnets. ( No. 343-]
No. 4. Bronze seated figure of Ra, with the solar disk on
bis head, and a papyrus sceptre on his knees. [No. 346.]
Ra.
130 THIRD EGYPTIAN ROOM WALL-CASES 131,132.
No. 5. Bronze-seated figure ol Ra, with the solar disk
on his head, and the leather of Maat, i.e., right and truth,
[No. 27,362.]
< hi in 3 knee.
No. 6. Bronze figure of Ra-Heru-khuti, or Ra-Har-
machis, standing upon a pedestal; the eyes are inlaid
with gold and garnets. | No. S41-]
Ra-Harmachis united in himself the attributes of
Ra and of " Horus of the two horizons" (Heru-khuti).
Another well known form of the
Sun-god of Egypt was that in which
the attributes of Ra and Menthu were
united under the form Menthu-Ra.
The chief seats of his worship were
Hermonthis and Thebes. Interesting
examples of the god arc : —
Nos. 7, 8. Bronze standing figures
of Menthu-Ra, hawk-headed and
wearing the solar disk, with two in., i
and plumes ; the eyes and necklace are-
inlaid with gold. [Nos. 339, 342.]
9. Pendant bronze figure of the
god, with one uraeus only.
[No. 30,063.]
The next group of gods in Wall-
Cases 131, 132 illustrate the great triad
of gods of Memphis, namely, Ptah,
Sekhet, and their two sons, I-em-
hetep (the Imouthes of the Greeks)
and Nefer-Tem, or Nefer-Atmu.
Ptah was a form of the morning sun,
or was the personification of the rising
sun himself, and was the "Opener" of the day ; his counter-
part was Temu, the god of the setting sun, or the " Closer"
of the day. In another aspect Ptah was the great cosmic
sculptor or artificer, who, with Khnemu, carried out the
commands of Thoth, and brought about the creation of
heaven and earth. The other principal forms of Ptah
are :— Ptah-Seker, or Ptah-Seker-Asar, and Ptah-
Tanen. Ptah-Seker is a form of Osiris, or of the night,
Menthu-Ra.
PTAH-SEKER, PTAI [-TANEN.
I'M
i.e., the dead Sun-god. Seker was a god of night, and
represented the inert power of the darkness ; he is some-
times depicted in mummy form, and holds the symbols of
the power of Osiris.
Ptah-Seker-Asar is represented in the form of a pygmy
with a large bald bead, and thick limbs ; in porcelain
figures he has a beetle on the top of his head. He com-
bined in himself the powers of Amsu, Khepera, and Osiris,
Pluh.
Seker.
and as such became the type of re-creation, new births,
and the resurrection.
Ptah-Tanen represented one of the great creative lorces
of the world, and assisted in the creation of the cosmic egg,
out of which sprang the world. Tanen w as originally the god
of living but inert matter, but merged into Ptah he became
an active principle of all life, and "the grandfather of the
gods." He is depicted in human form, with the horns,
plumes, and disk of Tanen and the symbols of Osiris.
K 2
THIRD EGYPTIAN ROOM W \l.l. CASES [31,132.
Sekhet, the wife of Ptah, is de-
pi* ted in th<- f( »rm < »f a woman with
the head oi 1 lioness, surmounted
by the solar disk, round which is
twined the solar uraeus. She typi-
fied the fierce, si 1 »rching, and de-
stroying heat 1 >f the sun's rays ; she
lived on the head of her fathei
K.i. and >hot out blazing fire upon
his enemies. Her son was railed
Nefer-Temu, or Nefer-Atmu, and
he appears in human form ; on his
head he wears a lotus flower sur-
mounted by the double plumes of
solar gods. Some legends declare
him to be the son of Ptah and
Bast. Another god who is often
mentioned as the third member
of the triad of Memphis is I-em-
hetep, but it is doubtful if he is as
ancient as Nefer-Temu, and he
appears to have
Seker as * 'siri:-.
been originall)
a sage of Mem-
phis, who was
deified after
($ ^J J death. Ex-
__ amples of these
gods worthy of
note are : —
No. 10. Ptah, in mummied form,
standing on a rectangular pedestal with
steps. [No. 11,019.]
No. 11. Bronze figure of Ptah, with
the attributes of Amsu or Min, the god
of generation. [No. ii,OOI.j
No. 12. Bronze figure of Ptah,
holding the emblem of "life" -p.
[No. 1 [,038,]
No. 13. Seated bronze figure of Ptah.
Ptah-Seker-Asar.
fNo. ii,ci6]
PTAII, SEKHET, NEFER-ATMU.
133
No. 14. Ptah and Sekhet, standing on the same
pedestal. [No. 211.]
No. 15. Seated bronze figure of Sekhet, with the head
of a lioness, surmounted by a disk and urseus.
[No. 11,068.]
No. 16. Sekhet standing against an obelisk, which,
with its pedestal, formed a shrine in which a gold figure of
the goddess was probably placed. [No. 27,366.]
No. 17. Bronze aegis of Sekhet ; probably an archi-
tectural ornament. [No. 226.]
Ptah-Tanen.
Sekhet.
No. 18. Fine bronze figure of Nefer-Atmu wearing a
lotus flower, symbol of the sun, on his head ; above it are
the two solar feathers, and on each side is a mendt
symbol of generation (?). In his right hand he holds a
scimitar, which has reference to his destroying power as a
god of nature. [No. 22,921.]
i ; ) I'M 1 1 : i > m ,\ iti \ \ m >< iM WA1 L-CAS1 i 5 i , i j \
Mo. in. Fine bronze figure of Nefer-Atmu, with the
mendts facing the beholder. In porcelain the figured this
god < 'iti n stands on a lion. | No. [ 1,052.]
No. 20. Bronze figure of I-em-hetep, who is seated
and holding an unrolled papyrus on his knees; it was
dedicated to the god by Ptah-mes n? H j§) v&.
[No. 11,055.]
Nefer-Atmu.
I-em-hetep.
No. 21. Bronze figure of I-cm-hctcp, which was
dedicated to the god by a devotee of this name.
I No. 11,074.]
Nil 22. Bronze figure of Seker, hawk-headed, wearing
the double crown. [No. 1 1,5 1 \
No. 23. Bronze Seker pendant. [ No. 23,867.]
No. 24. Mother-of-emerald seated figure of Seker,
hawk-headed, in mummified form. [No. 397.]
PTAH-SEKER-ASAR.
135
No. 25. Bronze figure of Ptah-Seker-Asar.
[No. 11,046.]
No. 26. Blue glazed porcelain figure of Ptah-Seker-
Asar ; on his head is a beetle, symbol of new life and
resurrection, and on the right of his head is the lock of hail
of eternally renewed youth. [No. 11,211.]
Xo. 27. Glazed porcelain figure of Ptah-Seker-Asar,
standing on crocodiles ; on his right hand is Nephthys, on
his left Isis, and behind him is Nut. [No. 29,660.]
No. 28. Blue glazed porcelain double figure of Ptah-
Seker-Asar and Bes. [No. 26,316.]
No. 29. Blue glazed porcelain figure of Ptah-Seker-
Asar, hawk-headed.
No. 30. Blue paste composite
figure of Ptah-Seker-Asar, Amen (or,
Khnemu), Horus, Thoth, Khonsu, etc.
[No. 36,453-]
According to the doctrine of Helio-
polis, the first two gods who proceeded
from Temu, and who formed with him
a triad, were Shu and Tefnut ; the
former was the personification of sun-
light, air, dryness, etc., and the latter
of water and of moisture in all forms.
Shu and Tefnut are often referred
to as the " double lion-god." Shu
appears in the form of a man, wearing
the feather, the phonetic value of
which, SlIU, gives the sound of his
name, and indicates the word "empti-
ness," " space " ; in this form he typifies
the space between earth and sky. He
was, however, regarded as the god who
holds up the sun's disk in the sky, and
the horizon itself, and in this capacity
appears in figure No. 2. Tefnut is
depicted as a woman with the head of
a lioness, surmounted by the solar
note arc : —
[No. 11,260.]
Shu. N<>. 1.
ursus. Worthy of
i \6
THIRD EGYPTIAN ROOM WALL-CASE i.^l.
Nfo. 31. 1 gis with tin- heads of Shu and Tefnut,
the latter wearing the solar disk. [No [i,oj
Nos. 32 41. A group of porcelain figures of Shu sup-
porting the solar disk.
[Nos. 408 .|io, 415, 416, 418, 419, 439,440, 442.]
The immediate offspring of Shu and Tefnut were Seb,
the earth-god, and Nut, his wife, the sky-goddess. Seb is
Shu, supporting the sun and sky
on his hands. No. 2.
Tefnut.
usually depicted in human form, and is called the " Erpa,"
i.e., the hereditary tribal king of the gods. He usually
wears the double crown, with horns, disks, etc. ; but often
he is seen with the figure of a goose on his head ; this bird
was sacred to him, because he once transformed himself
into a goose in order to make his way through the air.
His home was the earth, and his chief throne was at
Heliopolis, where, according to a legend, he produced the
out of which came the sun. His wife was Nut, the
THE GODS OF EGYPT — SEB AND NUT.
137
sky goddess, who is depicted in the form of a woman and
in that of a cow. In the illustration here given she wears
the disk, horns, and uraeus, which are characteristic of
several sky goddesses, and above the disk is the vessel of
water, called in Egyptian " Nu," which is at once the
symbol and sound of her name. Nut united in herself
the attributes of several very ancient sky-goddesses, and
especially those of Nut, the female counterpart of the
Seb.
Nut.
primeval god Nu, who was the personification of the great
watery abyss which existed before all time, and was the
source of all life and movement. Nu is depicted in the
form of a bearded man, seated on a tank of water, and
wearing the solar disk and the double plumes symbolic of
air.
Figures of Seb and Nut, in bronze and porcelain, seated
or standing, are rare, and the only example of a pendant
figure is No. 11,424 (Wall-Case 131, lower shelf;; flat
i *8
tiiiki> Egyptian room— wall-case 131.
(iguies of the goddess, with outstretched hands and wings,
made to be sewn to mummy swathings, will be seen in the
Fourth Egyptian Room (Table-Case K .
In the religious texts which treat of the creation of the
heavens and the earth, and of the new existence of man in
the future life, frequent mention is made of Thoth and
Maat. Thoth was the personification
of law, both in its physical and moral
aspects, and it was he who formed the
plan on winch" creation was worked
out after it had been decreed by Ka ;
he fixed the positions of the stars and
the planets, and the sun and moon ;
he ordered the seasons, and invented
all arts and sciences, and was the
patron god of sacred and profane
literature, and the " scribe of the gods."
He was declared to be the author of
the Book of the Dead, and he pro-
vided Isis and other deities with the
words of power which raised the dead,
and which overcame the forces of
nature and made them subservient to
men. He uttered the word which
resulted in the creation, and spoke the
[' 1 decree of everlasting happiness or
annihilation of the deceased on the
_J day of judgment in the Hall of Osiris.
Thoth is depicted in the form of an
ibis-headed man, who wears the Atef
crown. Maat, the female counterpart of Thoth, was
the personification of what is right or straight, rectitude,
integrity, righteousness and truth. Like Thoth, she was
inseparably connected with Ra, the sun-god, who made
his roursc on the lines laid down by her each day. She
occupied a place in the boat of the sun when he rose
out of the primeval abyss for the first time, and assisted
Thoth in determining his course. In connection with
Thoth must be mentioned Sa, the personification of the
divine intelligence and of human reason, who also stood
in the boat of the sun ; and a sister form of Maat
Nu.
THOTH, MAAT, SESHETA.
139
was Sesheta, who represented the literary aspect of her
character, and was the goddess of painting, writing, etc.
Among the figures of Thoth and Maat in Wall-Case
No. 131, may be noted : —
No. 42. Bronze figure of Thoth, ibis-headed, and
wearing horns, urnei, plumes, etc. [No. 483.J
Thoth.
Maat.
43. Bronze figure of Thoth, ibis-headed, wearing the
crescent moon, with the full moon within it, on his head.
[No. 11,056.]
No. 44. Thoth, ibis-headed, holding in his hands the
utchat "^p^ , or Eye of Horus or Ra. He here appears in
his capacity of measurer of celestial times and seasons.
[No. 481.]
140 THIRD EGYPTIAN ROOM— WALL-CASES 127-130.
No. 45. Double figure of Horus and Thoth, who are
engaged in the performance of a mythological ceremony,
in which Horus takes the place of Ra. 1X11.484.]
No. 46. Bronze figure of Maat, wearing on her head
the feather which is characteristic, and the phonetic value
of which gives the sound oflur name. | No. 1 1,109.]
No. 47. Bronze seated figure of Maat, wearing a
feather. [No. 383.]
Sa.
Sesheta.
In Wall-Cases 127-130 is exhibited a large and im-
portant series of bronze and porcelain figures of the god
Osiris, and of the members of his divine company. Ac-
cording to the doctrine of Ileliopolis, Osiris, Isis, Set,
Nephthys, and Horus-Anubis were the offspring of Seb
and Nut, the earth-god and sky-goddess respectively. In
the earliest times, Osiris was a god of water, probably of
the Nile, and Isis was the goddess of the land, which was
OSIRIS AND THE TET.
I4I
fructified by the Nile. At a later period tradition asserted
that Osiris and Isis were the king and queen of a country
in the south, that Osiris was murdered by his brother Set,
who also hacked the body to pieces ; that Isis collected
the members of the body and buried them ; that Thoth,
by means of his words of power, raised
up Osiris to life in the next world, where
he became the king and judge of the
dead, and the giver of immortality and
everlasting life to man. The Egyptians,
in the burial of their dead, imitated all
the ceremonies which tradition asserted
had been performed at the burial of
Osiris, and they recited the words which
had been composed by Thoth for Isis
and Horus, believing that the words and
ceremonies together would secure for
them acquittal in the judgment, and a
happy eternal life in the Sekhet-hetep
or " Field of Peace." The Egyptian
hoped that, through the sufferings and
death of Osiris, his body might rise again
in a transformed, glorified, and incor-
ruptible shape, and the devotee appealed
in prayer for eternal life to him who had
conquered death and had become the
king of the underworld through his
victory and prayer. For illustrations of
figures of Osiris and Isis, and of the
judgment scene, see Standard Cases F.
and G.
Isis, the sister and wife of Osiris, is body tf Osiris was hidden
., ' 1 • 1 r r by, 'SIS> wltn tne attri~
usually represented in the iorm 01 a butesofOsiris.
woman, who wears on her head the throne
fj, the phonetic value of which, " Ast," gives her name.
The legends about the goddess state that on certain
occasions she took upon herself the form of a bird, as, for
example, when she hovered over her husband's dead body,
and when she escaped from her enemies ; in the Book of
the Dead she once appears as a hawk and once as a serpent.
She is commonly called the " lady of words of power,"
The Tet, or symbol of the
e trunk in which the
i i ! rHIRD EGYPTIAN ROOM WALL-CASES 1 27-] }0.
ind the " mother of the god," and her incantations, which
she had learned from Thoth, were de< lared to be Irresistible.
When her son Horus was stung to death by .1 scorpion,
the appeal for help which she add re 1 <l to the sun god Ra
was so effective, that he stopped in his course, and sent
Thoth to teach her the words which, if properly recited,
would restore 1 loins to life. When Isis had made use of
[sis-Selqet.
Isis- 1 lal-mehil.
Isis- .Mul,
or [sis-Sept.
the words, life returned to her child, and then Thoth re-
entered the boat of the sun and Ra went again on his way.
Isis possessed many attributes, and was identified with
many goddesses, e.g., with Selqet, the scorpion-goddess,
with Sept, the goddess of the star bothis, with Hat-mehit
a local fish-goddess, who was widely worshipped in the
Delta, and with Mut, Hathor, etc. The form, however,
under which she most appealed to the Egyptians was that
OSIRIS AND HIS COMPANY OF GODS.
143
of the loving, protecting mother, and she was held to be
the mother of the dead as well as of the living. The
figures of this goddess commonly represent her in the act
of suckling her child Horus, and the British Museum col-
lection comprises about 140 such figures, 40 in bronze, and
100 in porcelain.
Closely connected with Osiris and Isis were Set and
Isis-St 1 >t
(Isis-Sothis).
Sl-L.
Nephthys.
Nephthys, the former of whom murdered Osiris ; Nephthys,
however, was closely associated with her sister Isis in the
funeral ceremonies which were performed for Osiris, and
in funeral scenes she always appears as the friend and
helper of Isis in her efforts to benefit the dead. Set is
depicted with the head of an unknown, probably predynastic,
animal, and Nephthys with the symbols M upon her head ;
the phonetic values of these, "NEBT-HETj" form her name.
144 THIRD EGYPTIAN ROOM— WALL-CASES I2/-I30.
Set was originally a nature power and was the personification
of night, but in later days he wa led as .1 power of
moral, as well as of physical, evil. He waged war against
I lorus the Aged, then again si Ra, and finally against < >siris,
whom he slew. Horus the son of Osiris and [sis met him
in combat, and did battle with him for three days and three
nights, and at length Set was
overthrown; henceforth this
form of Horus was called
" Heru - netch - tef- f," /.<.,
" Horus, the avenger of his
father." This god is some-
times confused with Heru-
pa-khart, or " Harpocratc s,"
who was declared to be origin-
all}- the offspring of Hcru-ur,
a very ancient sky-god.
The son of Set and
Nephthys was called Anpu,
or Anubis, who is always
depicted in the form of ;i
jackal -headed god. Anubis
was the god of the tomb, and
of embalmment, and of all
kinds of funeral ceremonies.
In the funeral papyri he is
seen standing by the bier of
the dead, and he receives the
mummy at the door of the
tomb, in order to take it to his abode in the underworld.
Beneath the bier in the accompanying illustration are four
vases, each having a cover made in a different form. These
represent the four children of Horus, who were called
Mestha, Hapi, Tuamutef, and Qebhsennuf. Originally
these gods represented the four pillars which held up the
iron plate that formed the sky, but at a later period they
were associated with Horus and Anubis in the performance
of the ceremonies which were connected with the funeral of
Osiris. Each was supposed to take under his protection one
of the four principal internal organs of the body, and the
covers of the jars in which the organs were placed after em-
Heru-pa-khart (Harpocrates).
OSIRIS, THE FOUR CHILDREN OF HORUS. 145
balmment were made in the forms of the heads of the
gods who guarded them.
Examples of figures of the gods of the company of
Osiris are :—
No. 48. Bronze Osiris, bearded, and wearing the Atef
crown, i.e., the crown of the South, with plumes, and holding
the flail J\ and crook, symbols of power and dominion.
[No. 11,054.]
Anubis; standing by the bier of the dead.
No. 49. Bronze Osiris, wearing the Atef crown with
horns, pendent uraei with disks, etc. ; the eyes are inlaid
with gold. LXo- 34.868.]
No. 50. Bronze seated figure of " Osiris the Moon,"
wearing the crescent moon and lunar disk on his head.
[No. 73$-]
No. 51. Bronze seated figure of "Osiris the Moon,"
holding in his hands an Utchat, or " Eye of Horus."
[No. 12,589.]
[46 THIRD EGYPTIAN ROOM— WALL-CASf 1
Mo 52. Bronze seated figure of Osiris.
[ No. 1 2,592.]
No. 53. Bronze seated figure of Isis, suckling her son
I 1 1 mis ; on her head she wens a crown of urai surmounted
l>\ ,1 pair of horns ami a disk. In the inscription on the
pedestal she is called "great one, god-mother" V\ |.
[No. 24,726.]
Mestha.
ruamutef.
Oebhsennuf.
No. 54. Bronze standing figure of Isis, wearing the
usual crown, and with her winged arms held out before her
to. protect Osiris or Horns. Late, but fine work.
[No. 12,588.]
No. 55. Bronze seated figure of Isis-Hathor-Selqet ;
very rare. [No. 26,943.]
No. 56. Bronze seated figure of Isis-Sothis, the
goddess of the Dog-Star. [No. 110.]
ISIS, NEPHTHYS, SET, HARPOCRATES. 147
No. 57. Bronze standing figure of Isis-Sothis, the
goddess of the Dog-Star. [No. 11,143.]
No. 58. Bronze standing figure of Isis-Hathor.
[No. 26,746.]
Nos. 59, 60. Seated porcelain figures of the goddess
Hat-mehit ; late period. [Nos. 909, 27,380.]
No. 61. Bronze standing figure of the god Set, wearing
the crowns of the South and North ; the upper part of the
body and the head were gilded. At the end of the period
of the new Empire the worship of Set became unfashionable
in Egypt, and the statues and figures of the god were
broken, and he himself was included among the devils who
were hated and feared throughout the country.
[No. 18,191.]
No. 62. Small bronze standing figure of the god Set ;
poor work, of a late period. [No. 22,897.]
No. 6t,. Bronze standing figure of the goddess Neph-
thys. [No. 11,504.]
Nos. 64, 65. Glazed porcelain figures of the goddess
Nephthys, with the symbols of her name [J on her head.
[Nos. 871, I3,527-]
No. 66. Bronze standing figure of Heru-pa-khrat, or
Harpocrates, wearing the crowns of the South and North ;
on the right of his head is the lock of hair symbolic of
"youth," and he holds his right hand to his mouth in the
attitude common to children. [No. 11,525.]
No. 6y. Bronze seated figure of Harpocrates, wearing
on his head horns, plumes, and a disk, which are the
attributes of several solar gods. [No. 26,296.]
No. 68. Bronze seated figure of Heru-sa-Aset, i.e.,
" I Iorus, son of Isis." [No. 998.]
No. 69. Gilded seated bronze figure of Heru-pa-neb-ta,
i.e., " Horus, the lord of the world," wearing the triple crown.
[No. ii,495-]
Nos. 70, 71. Glazed porcelain amulets, with figures of
Horus, Isis, and Nephthys. [Nos. 913, 26.317.]
L 2
l.)S THIRD EGYPTIAN ROOM WAL1 I VS1 126.
No. 72. Porcelain hollow-work figures of six goddesses,
Hathor, Nephthys, [sis, Mut, Tefnut, Bast.
[No. 929.]
Between the Salte and Roman periods, i.e., between B.i .
600 and B.C. 20, the Egyptians employed as talismans for
the protection of houses and other buildings small rounded
stone stela', with projections at the feet, whereon stood
figures of I lorus in the form of the "aged god who reneweth
his youth." To this class of objects the name Cippi of
Horus has been given. The god stands with each foot on
the head of a crocodile, and in his hands he grasps serpents,
scorpions, gazelle, etc., which typify powers of evil ; on his
right and left are symbols of Upper and Lower Egypt.
Above his head is the head of Bes, who here symbolizes
the aged Sun-god, who becomes young again under the
form of Horus. On each side of the sculptured figure of
the god is a series of mythological scenes, all of which
have reference to the power possessed by Horus over
noxious animals and reptiles and evil spirits. On the back
and sides of the cippi are inscribed series of magical texts,
which usually tell the story of how I lorus was restored to
life after he had been stung to death by a scorpion.
No. 73. Black stone Cippus of Horus, of the early
Ptolemaic period. [No. 36,250.]
No. 74. Black steatite cippus of Horus, of the late
Ptolemaic period. [No. 30,745.]
No. 75. Grey steatite cippus of Horus. In this
example Horus stands above six hippopotami, and on
the back are two mythological scenes not usually found on
cippi of Horus. [No. 27,373.]
No. j6. Bronze standing figure of Anpu or Anubis,
jackal-headed, and wearing the crowns of the South and
North. [No. 22,923.]
No. J"/. Bronze standing figure of Anubis.
[No. 29,197.]
No. /S. Bronze figure of Anubis with the attributes of
Horus. Roman period. [No. 11,513.]
ANUBIS, CHILDREN OF IIORUS, ETC.
149
Xo. 79. Bronze figure of Anubis. Roman period.
[No. 11,529.]
No. 80. Bronze figure of Anubis with the attributes of
Ptah-Seker-Asar, Horus, etc. [No. 22,930.]
Of the
Four Child-
ren of Horus
a large num-
ber of porce-
lain figures
will be found
on the second
group of
shelves in
Wall - Cases
127 and 128 ;
these were
not worn as
pendants like
the figures of
the other
gods, but
were sewn
to the swath-
ings of mum-
mies, and are
generally
found lying
over the
breasts of the
dead.
In Wall-
Case 125 are
exhibited a
number of
bronze figures
of some of the great goddesses of Egypt. First among
these comes Hathor, who was worshipped in pre-dynastic
times under the form of a cow ; her name in Egyptian
is " Het-Hert," and means the "house of Horus," and as
Hathor, or a goddess of the dead, looking forth
from the necropolis in the Theban hills.
150
THIRD El IYP I I \\ Ri »0M WALL CASE 125.
such she is the personification of that portion oi tin-
sky where Horus was born, /.<■., oi the place <»! sunrise.
The worship of the Cow god-
dess Hathor was universal in
Egypt, and in course of time
her attributes became mi
in those of almost every
viv.it local goddess throughout
the country. One of her prin-
cipal forms is that shown in
the accompanying illustration
(No. [), where she appears in
the form ofawoman,and holds
the sceptre of the goddesses
of Upper Egypt. On her head
is the head-
dress of Mut,
t h e w i f e of
A m e n - R a,
the king of
the gods, and
this is sur-
mounted by
the horns of
the Cow of
I lathor, the
solar disk,
which indicates her relation to Horus,
and the feather of the goddess Maat.
In illustration No. 2 the goddess ap-
pears both in the form of a cow and in
that of a woman ; the object here repre-
sented is a portion of the mendt amulet,
and is inscribed with the prenomen of(l
Hathor. No. 2.
Hath
Amenhctcp III. ( OW*^? J, a kins
of the XVIIIth dynasty, about B.C. 1450 ;
it is important as illustrating the dual
character of the goddess at a compara-
tively early period. In the Book of the Dead Hathor
plays a very prominent part, lor it is she who provides
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151
nourishment for the deceased in his new life in the other
world. Closely connected with her is Meh-urt, the per-
sonification of the overflowing celestial
stream wherein the gods were produced
and lived ; she also symbolized the source
of matter, and at a very early period was
identified with the primeval creative prin-
ciple. Her typical form is that of a cow-
headed woman, who wears the horns,
disk, and plumes of Hathor. Meh-urt is,
according to some late texts, a form of
Nehemauait, a goddess whose head is
surmounted by the sistrum of Hathor and
the cat of Bast, and who holds in her
hands the symbol of Maatand the papyrus
sceptre. The attributes of Nehemauait
are not clearly de-
fined, and her wor-
ship is not ancient.
Among the Hathor
goddesses, who are
sometimes said to
be seven in number,
and sometimes
twelve, must be
mentioned Meskhe-
net, who presided over the birth of
gods and men. She appears in the
Judgment Scene of the Book of
the Dead in connexion with Renenet,
the celestial nurse who appears there
before the gods to speak on behalf
of the deceased. Renenet is some-
times depicted in the form of a snake-
headed woman suckling a child ; the
two plumes on her head indicate that
she was recognized both in Upper
and Lower Egypt.
The four great divisions of Egypt,
South, North, East and West, were represented by the
goddesses Nekhebet, Uatchet, Bast and Neith. Nekhebet
Meh-urt.
Nehemauait.
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appears in the form of a winged serpent, wearing the < r< iwn
of the South, and also in the form of a woman wearing
the crown of the South, with plumes attached, and holding
in her hand a papyrus sceptre, round which a serpent is
entwined. The worship of the goddess is very ancient,
and dates from pre-dynastic times. Uatchet appears in
•2ft
Meskhenet.
Renenet.
the form of a winged serpent wearing the crown of the
North, and also in the form of a woman, wearing the
crown of the North, and holding in her hand the lotus
sceptre. The centre of her cult was at Per-Uatchet in the
Delta, and it seems that the serpent which represented the
goddess was worshipped there from time immemorial.
Bast is usually depicted in the form of a cat-headed
woman, and the cat was sacred to her. The home of her
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Nekhebet.
cult was Pa-Bast, in the Eastern Delta, a city which 1
mentioned in the Bible under the form of Pi-bescth
( E zek it-1 xxx, 17.
Originally she seems
to have been a foreign
goddess, but in very
early times she was
identified with the
female counterparts
of Ra and Tern, of
which gods she was
declared to be the
" Eye." One legend
makes her to be the
"soul of Isis." Neith
was one of the oldest
1 of the Egyptian god-
desses, and her worship
seems to have been
common in the
Western Delta in pre-dynastic times. She is depicted in
the form of a woman, wearing the crown of the North,
and holding in
her hands a
bow and two
arrows, or a
shuttle, and
sometimes she
is accompanied
by two croco-
diles. Accord-
in- to one view
she was the
goddess of war
and the chase,
and according
to another she
was a personi- ' bet.
fication of a
form of the great, inert, primeval water)' abyss which was
endowed with the power of self-creation and reproduction.
IIATHOR, MEH-URT, NEHEMAUIT.
155
A selection of bronze and porcelain figures which illustrate
the above paragraphs is exhibited in Wall-Case 125.
No. 81. Bronze standing figure of Hathor, wearing
horns and solar disk ; she probably held between her
hands a vase. [No. 30,713.]
No. 82. Bronze standing figure of Hathor, bearing on
her head a sistrum and uraeus. [No. 29,606.]
Mersektrt.
Nehebkau.
Urt-hekau
(a form of Isis).
No. 83. Portion of a mcudt amulet illustrating the
two principal forms of Hathor, i.e., those of a woman and
a cow. [No. 300.]
No. 84. Bronze figure of the goddess Meh-urt, cow-
headed, and wearing plumes, uraeus, and solar disk.
[No. 22,925.]
No. 85. Bronze figure of the goddess Nehemauit.
[No. 303. J
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Nos. 86,87. Bronze figures ol thegoddess Mersekert,
under the form of a human-headed snake.
[Nos. 2007, 29,415.]
No. 88. Bronze figure of the snake-headed goddess
Nehebkau. [No. 11,517.]
No. 89. Wooden figure of Nehebkau, carrying the
Utc/tat*^. [No. i.,779-]
Nos. 90, 91. Porcelain figures of Nehebkau.
[No's. 1 197, 24,748.]
No. 92. Bronze standing figure of Bast, cat-headed.
[No. 1 1,036.]
No. 93. Bronze standing figure of Bast, holding an
aegis and a sistrum. [No. 1 1,033.]
No. 94. Bronze figure of Bast, standing on a pedestal
made in the form of the symbol of her name j[ .
[No. 11,582.]
No. 95. Bronze figure of Bast with kittens.
[No. 12,590.]
No. 96. Bronze seated figure of Bast, wearing a disk
and uraeus. [No. 11,047.]
No. 97. Bronze standing figure of the cat-headed
goddess Menhi, wearing horns, disk and plumes.
[No. 11,017.]
Nos. 98-100. Three lapis-lazuli figures of the goddess
Selqet, wearing on her head a scorpion, her symbol.
[Nos. 375, 11,381, 11,382.]
No. 101. Bronze figure of the goddess Neith, of Sals,
wearing on her head the crown of the North.
[No. 24,722.]
No. 102. Bronze seated figure of Neith.
[No. 11,008.]
No. 103. Bronze aegis of Neith. [No. 72.]
No. 104. Blue paste head of the goddess Uatchet, on
a papyrus sceptre. [No. 13,405.]
TA-URT, HAPI THE NILE GOD.
157
No. 105. Bronze figure of a form of the hippo-
potamus-goddess Ta-urt or Thoueris, with the head of a
lion. Very rare. The goddess usually has on her head a
disk and a pair of
horns ; she holds in her
right paw a torch (?)
and in her left, which
rests on the sign of
magical protection y ,
the symbol of " life " y .
[No. 27,585.]-
Nos. 106, 107. Fi-
gures of Thoueris.
[Nos. 1 32 1, 29,667.]
WALL -CASE 124.
No. 108. Bronze
standing figure of Hapi,
the Nile-god, who holds
before him an altar from
which he pours forth a
stream of water. On
his head are a cluster
of papyrus, or lotus
plants, and the Utchat
-gp= . [No. 1 1,069.]
The Egyptians
thought that the Nile
rose from between two
mountains near the
Island of Philae, and
that it came from the
great celestial stream
Nu. Like Egypt, the Nile was divided into two sections,
each section being presided over by a god. In the accom-
panying illustration the two Nile-gods are tying the
stem of a lotus plant and the stem of a papyrus plant in
a knot round the symbol sma T\ which means "to unite,"
Ta-urt (Thoueris).
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and the union of Upper and Lower Egypt is indicated
by this cerem< >n\ .
Mi -. [09 Bronze standing figure of the I toi odil
Sebek, wearing on his head a pair of I). mis, a solar disk
with a uraeus, and a pair of plumes. | No. 12,924. ]
The god of the South Nil<
'I'll god of the North Nile.
Sebek, the Souchos of the Greeks, was at a very early
period identified with that form of the Sun-god Ra who
was held to be the son of Neith, and with Set the murderer
of Osiris. In some parts of Egypt crocodiles were hunted
and killed as noxious beasts, but at Thebes and near lake-
.Morn's they were accounted sacred, and their devotees put
crystal and gold earrings in their ens, and bracelets on
their fore-paws.
No. no. Bronze standing figure of the god Maahes,
with the head of a lion. The god usually wears the crown
MAAHES, AN-HER, AMSU OR MIN.
159
of the South, to which arc attached the two feathers ; he is
generally considered to be a form of the god Shu.
[No. 11,115.]
No. if 1. Portion of a bronze
standing figure of Maahes, with crown
imperfect. [No. 12,543.]
Nos. 112, 113. Porcelain figures
of Maahes. [Nos. 394, 395.]
No. 1 14. Bronze standing figure
of An-her, the Onouris of the Greeks.
[No. 36,311.]
An-her was the god of the under-
world of the city of Abydos, and his
common title was
"Governor of
Amentet" ^Khenti
Amentet) ; when,
however, Osiris be-
came the great god
of the dead of
Abydos, this title
was transferred to
him, and An-her
was relegated to
the position of a
god of secondary
importance. An-
her appears to have been originally a
personification of the reproductive
power of nature, with especial reference
to the sky and atmosphere, and in some
of his aspects he resembles Shu.
Nos. 115, 116. Bronze standing
figures of Amsu, or Min, a very old
personification of the generative and
reproductive powers of nature. Like
Amen, or Amen-Ra, he wears on his
head a disk and plumes, and he is
usually depicted as an ithyphallic god, with his right hand
and arm raised in the act of" holding up a flail.
[Nos. 43, 45.]
Sebek.
An-he
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No. 117. Bronze pendanl with three bronze figures of
the gods of creation, Ra, Amen, and Amsu, or Min.
[No. [8,681.]
Nos. 118, 119. Glazed porcelain figures of Amsu.
[ Nos. 1 3,520, 22,168.]
In Wall-Case 123 will be found grouped figures of
Amen-Ra, Mut, and Khonsu, who formed the triad of great
gods of Thebes. Amen-Ra represents the fusion of Amen
and Ra, and the cult of this dual god is one of the most
remarkable phases of Egyptian religious belief. Originally
Amen was a local god of Thebes, who sprang into promi-
nence immediately after the rise to power of the princes of
Thebes, about B.C. 2600 ; the kings of the Xllth dynasty
either founded or added to a temple to the god at Thebes,
and their successors continued to pay great honour to him.
When Seqenen-Ra, a king of the XVI Ith dynasty, defeated
the Hyksos, and so made himself master of all Egypt, the
power and glory of Amen were further magnified, and
under the XVI I Ith dynasty he was definitely proclaimed
" king of the gods," and he was made to usurp all the titles
and attributes of Ra, the Sun-god. The name " Amen "
means "hidden," and he appears to be the personification
of the invisible, all-pervading, all-creating generative male
principle, which made itself visible in the great operative
powers of nature. His female counterpart was Mut, who
is depicted in the form of a woman, and may be regarded
as the type of the Egyptian "world-mother" in the latter
half of the dynastic period. The third member of the triad
of Thebes was the Moon-god, who existed in two forms,
which are called Khonsu and Khonsu Nefer-hetep.
Khonsu possessed many of the attributes of Horus, and is
depicted as a hawk-headed man, with the lunar crescent
and disk on his head. Khonsu Nefer-hetep has the head
of a man, and was believed to possess the power of driving
out evil spirits, and of curing those who were sick of
diseases caused by the supernatural and unfriendly powers.
No. 120. Bronze standing figure of Amen-Ra, king of
the gods, with the solar disk and plumes on his head.
[No. 9.]
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No. [21. Bronze seated figure of Amen-Ra.
[No. 11,003.]
Bronze seated figure of Amen-Ra, ram-
[No. 11,233.]
Bronze shrine containing a seated figure of
Amcn-Ra. This object was a votive offering made by
Shabataka, a king of Kgypt of the XXVth dynasty, about
b.c. 650. [No. 1 1,013.]
No. 124. Wooden plaque inscribed with figures of
" Amen-Ra, king of the gods," and " Ptah, the begetter of
the gods"; between them is the cartouche of Seti II.
Mer-en-Ptah Co "j g j [] I) => 1 , a king of Egypt, B.C. 1 300.
[No. 38.]
No. 125. Bronze seated
figure of Amen-Heru-pa-khart
(Amen-Harpocrates).
[No. 34,937-]
No. 126. Bronze seated
figure of Mut. [No. 58.]
No. 127. Bronze standing
figure of Mut. [No. 11,022.]
Nos. 128, 129. Two porce-
lain figures of the goddess Mut
in the character of Isis suckling
Horus.
[Nos. 11,158, I3.5I9-]
No. 130. Bronze figure of
Khonsu, hawk-headed.
[No. 87.]
No. 131. Gold figure of
Khonsu, with lunar crescent and
disk. [No. 86.]
Nos. 132, 133. Bronze
figures of Khonsu, wearing the
triple crown and attributes of Harpocrates.
[Nos. 11,045, 354I7-]
Khnemu.
KHNEMU, THE CREATOR.
163
No. 134. Bronze figure of Khonsu, holding the Utchat
^^ of the moon. [No. 12,587.]
No. 135. Bronze figure of Khonsu, wearing the crown,
horns, etc., of Osiris. [No. 583.]
In Wall-Case 122 are exhibited figures of the gods of
the triad of Elephantine, which consisted of Khnemu,
Satet, and Anqet. Khnemu was probably a god of the
pre-dynastic Egyptians ; he is usually depicted in the
form of a man, with the head of a flat-horned ram, an
animal which appears to have been introduced into
Egypt from the East, and which is not represented on
the monuments after the period of the Xllth dynasty.
Above his horns is often seen the jug Pj, the phonetic
value of which, " Khnemu," forms the god's name. The
name Khnemu means the " moulder,"
and he is described as the " builder of
" men, the maker of the gods, the
" Father who was in the beginning, the
" creator of the things which are, and
" of the things which shall be, the
" source of all that existeth, Father of
" fathers, Mother of mothers, the lord
" who maketh things to come into
" being from himself, creator of heaven,
" earth, underworld, water and moun-
" tains, who raised up heaven on its
" four pillars, and who holdeth up the
" same in the firmament." The female
counterpart of Khnemu was Sati or
Satet, who appears to have been the
goddess of the Inundation of the Nile.
She was identified with Isis-Sothis,
Isis-Hathor, Ament, Menat, Renpit
and other goddesses. Her sister god-
dess was Anqet, a personification of
the waters of the Nile.
No. 136. Bronze standing figure
of Khnemu, ram-headed, wearing
the Atef crown with disk, uraei, etc.
Satet, or Sati.
[No. 92.]
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No. 138.
No. 139.
No. 140.
No. 137. Bronze figure of Khnemu, wearing ;i disk.
[ No. 1 1,040.]
Lead seated figure of Khnemu.
[No. 1 1,067.]
Bronze aegis of Khnemu. [No. 37,470.]
Wooden figure of Sati or Satet.
[No. 11,487.]
Among the foreign gods of unusual type preserved in
the collection may be mentioned Bes and Reshpu. The
origin of Bes is still an open ques-
tion, but judging by the feathers on
his head, his home was the northern
portion of Central Africa. He is
depicted in the form of a large-
headed bearded dwarf, with bowed
legs, and he wears the skin of the
Bes \\ M^t^, an animal of the pan-
ther class, from which he appears
to derive his name. Bes was the
god of war, music, laughter, and of
merry-making of all kinds, and he
was the protector of children and
the patron of beauty. In the later
dynastic period he was identified
with Horus and other solar gods,
and became the type of the " old
god who reneweth his youth."
No. 141. Bronze figure of Bes,
whose plumes arc surmounted by
an aegis of Khnemu. [No. 11,503.]
No. 142. Bronze figure of Bes,
with two urasi on his head.
[No. .11,530.]
No. 143. Bronze figure of Bes
on a standard. [No. 15,291.]
No. 144. Bronze figure of Bes standing on a seat
supported by sphinxes. [No. 1208.]
No. 145. Bronze figure of Bes standing on two lions.
[No. 35,978.]
Bes.
POLYTHEISTIC FIGURES AND SACRED ANIMALS. l6$
No. 146. Wooden figure of Bes, holding a tambourine,
and dancing on a lotus flower. [Wall-Case 129.]
[No. 20,865.]
Among the other_foreign gods worshipped in Egypt
may be mentioned Anthat, a goddess of war, who is
probably to be identified with _Anthretha, Astharthet,
or Ashtoreth, Qetesh, Kent, Aasith, Bar or Baal,
Bailtha or Beltis, and Reshpu, Anthat holds a spear
and shield in her right hand, and brandishes a club in
her left; Reshpu is depicted
in the form of a man who
is armed with shield, spear,
and club ; projecting from
his turban is the head of
a gazelle, which animal
appears to be a very
ancient symbol of the god.
Figures of Anthat and
Reshpu may be seen on
Stele No. 191 in the
Northern Egyptian Gal-
lery.
In Wall-Case 122 are
exhibited several examples
of " polytheistic figures,"
i.e., figures of a composite
god who, in the Ptolemaic
Reshpu. period, was endowed with
all the chief attributes of
all the ancient gods of Egypt. See Nos. 17,169, 1205,
35,720, etc.
In Wall-Cases 1 19-123 will be found specimens of
figures of nearly all the sacred animals, reptiles, birds, etc.,
of Egypt. Among these may be specially mentioned : —
Bronze figures of the hawk, sacred to the Horus gods
[Nos. 11,593, n,594, i844, 36,3 1 3], and figures of a hawk
with the attributes of Menthu and Khonsu [Nos. 1859,
i86r]. Figures of the man-headed lion, or Egyptian
Sphinx, symbol of Ra-Heru-Khuti or Ra-Harmachis
[Nos. 11,891, 24,700, 35,725, 11,552]. Figures of the lion,
i66 THIRD ICVPIIAN ROOM — W'AU.-t ASES 119 123.
acred to Horus, Akcr, and other l^< >< Is [Nos. 11,553.
11,936]. Figures of Hap <>r Apis, the sacred bull of
Memphis, and of Mer-ur, <>r Mnevis, the sacred bull of
Heliopolis. The cult of these g<>ds is very ancient, and
continued until the latest times [Nos. 160K, 35,721,
11.017, 11,616; examples in porcelain arc 1624, 11,949].
Figures of the ibis, sacred to Thoth [Nos. [925, (1,619,
36,218 ; ibis with figure of Maat [No. 36,451]. Figures of
The Bull Apis.
The Bull Mnevis.
the shrewmouse, sacred to Horus [Nos. 1604, 26,335].
Figures of the dog-headed ape, having on his head the
lunar disk and horns. He was the companion of Thoth,
whom he assisted in calculating times and seasons,
and in weighing the souls of the dead in the Judgment
[Nos. 1443, 35401, 12,561, 32,197, 11,898]. Figure of the
animal, symbol of Set [No. 30,460]. Figures of the
jackal sacred to Anpu (Anubis) and Ap-uat [Nos. 11,532,
SACRED ANIMALS OF THE EGYPTIANS.
167
11,895, 22,928]. Figures of the cow, sacred to Hathor
[Nos. 1631, 36,447, 11,579, 11,585]. Figures offish, sacred
to Hathor, Nehemauit, and Hat-mehit [Nos. 11,624, 11,626,
12,041, 37,376, 37,449]. Figures of the cat, sacred to
Bast [Nos. 1546, 1552, 11,556; a figure in crystal
No. 11,918]. Figures of the crocodile, sacred to Sebek
[Nos. 1941, 22,154, 23)°49]- Figures of the ram, sacred
The Ram of Mendes.
to Khnemu, and later to Amen [Nos. 11,720, 22,887].
Figures of the vulture, sacred to Mut [Nos. 12,022,
12,030]. Figures of the ichneumon, sacred to Uatchet,
[Nos. 11,590, 29,602, 35,091]. Figures of the uraeus,
sacred to Ra and other gods [Nos. 1994, 24,727]. Figures
of the sow, sacred to Isis [Nos. 1700, 1795]. Figures of
the hare, j sacred to Osiris [Nos. 1731, 11,983]. Figures
of the scorpion, sacred to Selqet [Nos. 2017, 12,033].
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Figures of the frog, emblem of the resurrection and
fertility [Nos. 2019, 11,620]. Figures <>f the horned
beetle, sacred to R.a [Nos. 2042, 11,630, 12,040]. Figure
of the hippopotamus, sacred to Hathor [No. 34,275].
The god Bennu, i.e., the I'hrenix god.
On the floor of Wall-Cases 118- 132 will be found an
interesting collection of figures of the gods who have
already been referred to, in wood, bronze, stone, terra-
cotta, clay, etc.
FOURTH EGYPTIAN ROOM.
In this room are exhibited large collections of
Jewellery, Amulets, Scarabs, Portrait figures in bronze
and wood, Vases and other Vessels in various kinds of
limestone, diorite, porphyry, earthenware, porcelain, glass,
etc. ; some fine specimens of Furniture, sun-dried Bricks,
glazed Tiles, terra-cotta figures of the Ptolemaic and
Roman periods, and a large number of miscellaneous anti-
quities of great general interest. The period covered by
these objects ranges from about B.C. 4000 to A.D. 400.
In Standard-Case A are musical instruments, ivory
amulets, figures, plaques for inlaying in toilet boxes, etc.,
spoons in various ornamental forms. Table-Case B
contains a large and varied collection of glazed porcelain
beads, necklaces, ornamental pendants, etc. In Standard-
Case C are groups of toys, including dolls in wood,
earthenware, bronze, etc., figures of animals, some having
moveable limbs, draughtboards and draughtsmen, etc. In
the same case are fine painted wooden models of houses,
granaries, boats, etc., and a number of inscribed bronze
libation buckets, libation vases, censers, and other vessels,
many of which were used in the public and private worship
of the gods. In Table-Cases D, E, G, I, is exhibited a
collection of scarabs which is the largest and most repre-
sentative in the world ; many of them are inscribed with
royal names, and are very fine, and some of them record
the names of kings of whom no larger monuments exist.
The custom of wearing scarabs with the view of obtaining
the protection of Khepera, the creator of gods and men,
began early in the dynastic period, and continued until
long after Egypt had become a Roman province ; the large
green stone scarabs, of which so many fine examples are
exhibited in Table-Cases G and I, were laid in or on the
bodies of the dead at a still earlier period, and the idea
most prevalent in connexion with them had reference to
the resurrection of the dead. All the principal varieties of
inscription, device, ornament, and style are well represented
here. Table-Case F contains an important group of hard
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stone amulets, which were used chiefly in connexion with
the Book of the Dead, and many of the varieties are
inscribed with extracts from chapters in that work.
Here too are a number of fine necklaces, formed of beads
in gold and hard stone, of the period of the XlXth and
following dynasties; the older specimens of this class of
object will be found in Table-Case J. Table-Case H
contains an ancient Chair of State inlaid with silver, a set
of fine draughtsmen, etc. In Table-Case J is exhibited
an important series of groups of jewellery, among them
being a long necklace of scarabs set in gold frames, of
the period of the Xllth dynasty, a number of massive
inscribed gold rings, a pair of bracelets inlaid with
plaques of coloured stones and paste, of a unique character,
and several interesting objects of the Graeco-Roman period.
Table-Case K contains a large miscellaneous collection of
objects in porcelain, and pendants, plaques, etc., of glass.
In Standard-Case L are several fine inlaid chairs of the
XVIIIth and XlXth dynasties, a table, the frame of a
bed, a toilet box of the XVIIIth dynasty, etc. Graeco-
Roman antiquities and Coptic ostraka will be found in
Table-Case M, and Table-Case N contains Gnostic Gems.
The Gnostics were a Christian sect which flourished in the
third century, and their doctrines were a mixture of Christian
and pagan beliefs, which they expressed symbolically.
Many of the gems here exhibited are of great interest
and importance.
The WALL-CASES 137-142, 194 204 contain an
extremely comprehensive collection of vases, jars, bowls,
cups, saucers, jugs, etc., which were placed in the tomb to hold
wine, oil, honey, unguents, cosmetics, etc. They have been
arranged in chronological order, and cover practically the
whole range of Egyptian dynastic history. During the
Archaic period vessels of this kind were usually made of
dark coloured and variegated stones, but from about the
Vth dynasty onwards alabaster and arragonite, or zoned-
alabaster, were commonly used.
In WALL-CASES 143-164 are fine series of earthen-
ware and porcelain vessels, which illustrate the potter's
art from the time when painted earthenware vessels and
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models in wood were made to take the place of variegated
stone vases to the Roman period. The forms of many of
the porcelain objects are very graceful, and the colours
very beautiful, and they well illustrate the high pitch of
perfection to which the ceramic art of Egypt was brought
under the XVIIIth and XlXth dynasties. In Wall-Case
175 are sun-dried bricks, made of mud and sand which
were bound together by broken pottery and straw. Among
the names of kings inscribed on them are Thothmes I., b.c.
1633; Thothmes III., b.c 1600; Thothmes IV., b.c 1533;
Amen-hetep III., b.c 1500 ; and Rameses II., b.c 1333,
for whom the children of Israel built the store cities of
Pithom and Raamses.
In WALL-CASES 182-187 are Articles for the Toilet,
including combs, hair pins, hair tweezers, bronze mirrors
and mirror cases, handles of fans, tubes and boxes in
various shapes and forms for holding kohl, i.e., antimony
or bismuth, for the eye-lids, unguents, perfumes, etc. ; on
the floor of the cases are specimens of petrified wood.
In WALL-CASES 188-193 are groups of models of men
engaged in cooking, slaughtering animals, etc., and a fine
series of wooden Portrait Figures, the oldest of which
date from the Xlth or Xllth dynasty.
On the south wall of the room is a large painted cast
on which is represented the conquest of the Nubians by
Rameses II., and the receipt of tribute by the king.
Rameses sits under a canopy, and his officers lead before
him Nubians, who bring as gifts apes, leopards, a giraffe,
Sudan cattle, a hunting dog, a lion, an ostrich, gazelle,
and pieces of ebony. On the north wall is another
large painted cast, on which is a series of scenes
representing the conquest by the same king of Libyans
and Syrians. The casts were made from the walls of the
little rock-hewn tomb which Rameses II. built to com-
memorate his victories over the Nubians in the city of
Thelemset, the Talmis of classical writers, and the
modern Kalabshah, about 40 miles south of Aswan.
These casts were made by Mr. Bonomi for Mr. Hay, and
were carefully coloured after the originals, and they are the
only evidences extant of the beauty of the wall decorations
of the temple, for every trace of colour has now vanished.
\J2 FOURTH EGYPTIAN ROOM— SUMMARY 01 CONTENTS
Ramescs II. [No. 30,448.!
On entering the room to the right is exhibited a
beautifully sculptured head from a quartzite-porphyry
statue of Rameses II., king of Egypt about B.C. 1333, as
a young man ; notwithstanding the extreme hardness of
the stone, the features are cut with a delicacy and finish
which makes this object one of the finest examples of
portraiture in stone of the period. From Thebes.
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.
173
TABLE-CASE A. Musical instruments, inscribed
shells, ivory and wooden spoons, etc. The following-are
of special interest : —
No. 1. Harp, the body of which is made in the form
of a woman, wearing the crowns of the South and North,
and a pectoral, the two ends of which terminate in hawks'
heads and disks. This very interesting instrument is made
of wood, covered with painted plaster, and the upper part
of it is inlaid with plaques of blue, green, and red glazed
porcelain. When fully strung the instrument possessed
Harp. No. 24,564.
five strings. From the tomb of Ani at Thebes. XVIIIth
dynasty. [No. 24,564.]
No. 2. Four-stringed harp, the body of which is
formed by pieces of skin stretched over a wooden frame,
[No. 38,170.]
No. 3. Four-stringed harp, with the sound board made
in the form of a shell. No. 4. Tortoise shell, which once
formed the sound board of a small harp.
[Nos. 6381, 38,171-]
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FOURTH EGYPTIAN ko«iM — TABLE-CASE A.
No. 5. Reed flute, with four holes | No. 6385]. No. 6.
Bronze flute with four holes, and ornamented with incised
rings I No.] 2,742 |. No. 7. Portion ofa reed whistle, with the
remains of an inscription in Greek uncials. [No. 16,232.]
NO. 8. Bells. Bronze bell, ornamented with the head of
Bes [No. 6374]. No. 9. Bronze bell, ornamented with the
heads of cats in relief [Xo. 38,160]. No. 10. Bronze bell, orna-
mented with the head of an animal [No. 17,094]. No. 11.
Bronze bell with figures of lizards, the head ofa bull, the head
ofa hen, the head of Bes, the god Ptah,and utc/iats, or sym-
bolic eyes in relief [No. 30,062]. Man)-, if not all, of the bells
here exhibited were attached to the garments of priests and
ministrants when engaged in the performance of services in
the temples, and the sounds which the clappers made were
thought to be effectual in driving away evil spirits. Nos. 12
and 13 were probably used for signalling
purposes. [Nos. 32,212,32,213.]
No. 13. Cymbals. Pair of bronze
cymbals, fixed in their original frame or
holder, which is ornamented with an incised
diamond pattern ; they were probably
carried by a priestess, who suspended the
holder from her girdle [No. 26,260]. No.
14. Pair of fine bronze cymbals, with the
original linen cord [No. 6373]. No. 15.
Two pairs of cymbals, unmounted.
[Nos. 15,774, 17,084.]
No. 16. Sistra. Massive bronze sis-
trum, the upper part of the handle of
which is in the form of the head of Hathor,
who wears a tiara composed of uraei
wearing disks. The small bronze disks
which produced the sound moved on three
wires, which are made in the form of uraei ;
the heads of these project from one side,
and the tails from the other. Sistra were
usually carried by priestesses in proces-
sions in the temples, and the noise made
by the bronze disks when shaken was
believed to drive away evil spirits [No. 36,310]. No. 17.
Bronze Sistrum.
[No. 36,310.]
BRONZE AND PORCELAIN SISTRA, SHELLS. 175
Bronze sistrum, the upper part of which is ornamented
with designs representing the goddesses of the South
and North carrying sistra, the goddess Bast, etc. [No.
38,172]. No. 18. Bronze sistrum ornamented with
figures of cats and a bird [No. 30,735]. No. 19. Green
glazed porcelain sistrum, the upper part of which is in
the form of a shrine of Hathor ; it was made for a king
or prince called Psammetichus, ( □ p ^ ^=^ I whose
name it bears [No. 6359]. No. 20. Model of a
sistrum made of wood, and a reed painted [No. 6358].
No. 21. Cast of a sistrum, with a handle formed by a figure
of Bes and a head of Hathor. The ends of the wires are in
the form of heads of ducks [No. 6365]. Nos. 22, 23.
Green glazed porcelain models of sistra.
[Nos. 6361, 6362.]
No. 24. A group of Shells, inscribed with the pre-
nomen and nomen of Usertsen I. f 0^"y|, f | 1 ^ 1>
the prenomen of Amenemhat II. f o fSSc^ tt j, and the
prenomen of Rameses II., the Great ( m W j i \\ 1 1
[Nos. 15,423, 20,754, 27,723, 29,434, 30,056, 30,057, 30,731,
36,499-]
On the sloping sides of the case are exhibited : —
No. 1. Semicircular ivory object, amulet (?) with
rounded ends, inscribed with figures of the two-headed lion
god Aker, heads of crocodiles, lions, serpents, a serpent-
headed god holding a serpent in each hand, a beetle, a
frog, the hippopotamus goddess Thoueris, etc. On the
reverse, among other figures, is that of a hawk-headed
leopard, with wings and a human head growing out of his
back. A short inscription indicates that the object was
made to give " magical protection to the lady of the house,"
whose name was Seneb I J Jj . From Thebes.
XVI I Ith dynasty or earlier. [No. 18,175.]
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KorkTII KCYl'TIAN KOoM — TABLE-CA
No. 2. [Stamp, with figures of the two Nile-gods
uniting the South and the North, and the goddt
Nekhebet and Uatchet, in the forms of a vulture and a
serpent, seated on clusters of papyrus and lotus plants
[No. 35,421]. No. 3. Ivory plaque from a box made in
the form of a pylon of a temple [No. 29,371]. No. 4.
Rounded plaque from a box, with a figure of Ra or
Ra-Harmachis in relief. Fine work [No. 38,183]. No. 5.
Ivory figure of a woman wearing a close-fitting cap and
a pig-tail. Fine work [No. 38,185]. No. 6. Ivory seated
figure of a boy [Xo. 30,467]. No. 7. Ivor)' hippopotamus
Ivory amulet made fur the lady Senel). [No. 18,175.]
[No. 35,426]. No. 8. Ivory figure of a god wearing the
triple crown [No. 35,423]. No. 9. Ivory box in the form
of a water-fowl, which is giving a fish to its young
[No. 5946]. Nos. 10, 11. Portions of ivory spoons
[Nos. 5975, 5955]- Nos. 12-16. Pieces of ivory coloured
for inlaying [No. 32,697, etc.]. Nos. 17-19. Three ivory
legs from a box made in the form of lions' legs [Nos.
30,465, 30,466, 29,433]. No. 20. Ivory spoon, the bowl
of which is in the shape of the shell Inciina Nilotica
[No. 5957].
Nos. 31-68. A fine series of spoons made of wood,
carved in various ornamental shapes, many being painted
and inlaid. The most interesting are : — No. 36. Spoon,
IVORY AND WOODEN SPOONS, ETC.
177
the bowl of which is in the form of a duck, and the
handle in that of a woman lying full length [No. 38,186].
No. 47. Bowl of a spoon carved with lotus flowers
[No. 5971]. No. 48. Spoon, with flat, hollow-work handle,
No. 37,924-
Spoons.
No. 5966.
in which is a figure of a woman walking among lotus
plants [No. 38,188]. No. 49. Spoon, with flat, hollow-
work handle, in which is a figure of the god Bes
[No. 5954]. No. 50. Spoon, with handle in the form of"
a human hand and arm [No. 5962]. No. 51. Spoon, with
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17S mm kiii EGYPTIAN ROOM — TABLE-CASE \.
howl in the form of a vase, and the handle in that of a
woman with an elaborate head-dress, who is carrying
the bowl on her shoulder [No. 37,924]. No. 52. Spoon,
painted with lotus (lowers and inlaid [No. 5965]. No. 53.
Spoon in the form of a lotus flower, with two buds on
stalks [No. 5966]. No. 56. Double spoon, with howls in
the form of cartouches, and ornamented with designs of
water-fowl and papyrus plants. In the flat handle are
two figures of the god Bes. The substance in the spoon
is wax [No. 5953]. No. 63. Spoon, with handle in the form
of a flat fish [No. 5952]. No. 65. Spoon, with a handle in
the form of a jackal [No. 38,187] No. 66. Spoon, with
the bowl in the; form of a fish, and the handle in that of
a jackal, which is seizing the fish by its tail [Xo. 5945].
Nos. 69-96. Models of hands and arms, in ivory and
wood. These objects .ire usually found lying on the
breasts of mummies, and they appear to have been placed
there with the view of procuring the " magical protection "
of the gods for the dead. The finest examples are : —
No. 74. Ivory object, with one end terminating in the
head of a ram or oryx [No. 18,186]. Nos. 75, 76, 94,
95. Ivory hands and arms with annular ornaments [Nos.
20,859, etc.]. Nos. y^y 79. Pair of horns, ornamented
with incised lines [Nos. 30,728, 30,729]. Nos. S3, 84.
Ivory hands and arms, ornamented at thex wrists with
heads of Ilathor [Nos. 20,779, 20,780]. No. ^y. Ivory
scarab, inscribed •¥" 'VN'vvw^I'3iS?=i [No. 30,730].
Nos. 98-148. A large miscellaneous collection of bone
and ivory objects, of various periods, from B. C. 1 500 to
the late Coptic period. Among these may be specially
noted: — Nos. 113-116. Theatre tickets [Nos. 14,493, etc.].
Nos. 128-13 1. Ivory boxes, some of which are ornamented
with annules [Nos. 18,187, etc.]. No. 133. Ivor)- box in the
form of a pylon [No. 16,021]. No. 134. Round ivory box
with a lid [No. 38,246]. No. 1 36ff. A collection of bone
and ivory bracelets [No. 26,741]. No. 147. Round ivory
box, in the shape of a two-eared vase, ornamented with
incised lines [No. 29,662]. Nos. 149 194. A fine series of
carved bone and ivory plaques for inlaying in boxes, with
corner ornaments, etc. These belong chiefly to the Roman
NECKLACES OF PORCELAIN BEADS. I 79
period. No. 199. Figure of a dog holding a bird in his
mouth ; his collar is of gold [No. 13,596]. No. 200. Bust
of an Egyptian royal personage [No. 35,422]. No. 201.
Head of Venus Anadyomene [No. 20,995]. No. 221.
Ivory altar. Coptic period. [No. 37,451]. Nos. 246, 247.
Handles of knives, with ends in the form of lions' heads
[Nos. 13,966, 14,467]. No. 251. Head of a lion. Very
fine work [No. 38,197]. No. 260. Ivory figures of Isis and
Horus. Roman period [No. 26,225]. No. 262. A deity in
a shrine, holding a bull's head [No. 20,875]. Nos. 267, 268.
Ivory pomegranates, coloured red [Nos. 17,064, 18,189].
TABLE-CASE B. Herein is exhibited a large col-
lection of Egyptian porcelain beads, glazed in blue,
green, red, yellow, and other colours. The greater number
of them were found in tombs in Upper Egypt, and were
collected from coffins, into which they had fallen from the
necks of mummies ; many necklaces have been re-strung,
but in some cases the ancient linen thread has been
preserved. They belong chiefly to the period of the
XXVIth dynasty, about B.C. 600. The following are of
special interest: — No. 1. Necklace of blue porcelain
bugle beads, with pendent scarab [No. 32,482]. No. 55.
Necklace formed of a series of rectangular plaques
of porcelain, inscribed with the name of Psammetichus
d 1|\ [No. 24,312]. No. 56. Similar necklace, the
plaques being inscribed with the name of Osiris \\
[No. 24,313]. No. 70. Necklace composed of porcelain
scaraboids and porcelain disks [No. 20,586]. No. 71. Neck-
lace of thick, short, tube-shaped blue porcelain beads
[No. 30,337]. No. 87. Necklace of circular greenish-blue
porcelain beads [No. 18,168]. No. 88. Necklace of round,
blue glazed porcelain beads, with yellow disks, a figure of
Bes, and two plaques, one with the figure of a hippo-
potamus, and the other with a lion's head, in relief
[No. 3334]. No. 112. String of flat, circular beads,
glazed in blue, green, red, yellow, and white colours
[No. 14,451]. Nos. 138, 139. Massive blue glazed
porcelain beads [Nos. 7789, 7790]. No. 149. Necklace of
blue porcelain beads, made in the form of Egyptian
N 2
[80 FOURTH EGYPTIAN ROOM — STANDARD-CASE C.
gods and amulets [No. 38,003]. No. 1 88. Necklace
made of oval, serrated plaques of glazed porcelain,
stamped with a cross of double lines [No. 20,593].
Xo. 215. Necklace of blue porcelain beads, made in the
form of uraei, cartouches, etc.; some of the cartouches
an.- stamped with the prenomen and nomen of one of
the Rameses kings [No. 14,790]. No. 216. Necklace of
blue porcelain beads, with pendants of the same
material in the form of Harpocratcs, a snake, a bird, etc.
[No. 29,468]. Nos. 235 242. A group of fragments of
ancient bead-work, which formed part of the coverings of
mummies in their coffins. No. 243 has been carefully
restored, but many modern beads have been added.
[Nos. 7160, 18,167, 14,627, 14,665, 7159, etc.]
STANDARD-CASE C. Bronze bowls, vessels, im-
plements, etc., toys, models of houses, a granary, etc.
From B.C. 2500 to the Roman period.
Shelf 1. No. 1. Bronze libation vase, inscribed with
the name of Nesi-ta-neb-asher -^ ^ <|n ^Z7 n <0<
[No. 25,567]. No. 2. Libation vase inscribed with the
names of Ast - em - khebit and Ra- men-kheper, two
prominent members of the family of the priest kings of
Egypt of the XXIInd dynasty [No. 25,566]. Nos. 3 11.
Bronze bowls, with feet, handles, spouts, etc. [Nos. 29,174,
etc.]. No. 12. Iron object of unknown use [No. 38,236].
Shelf 2. Children's Toys, Dolls, etc. Nos. 13 15.
Wooden dolls, ornamented with coloured patterns. Nos.
16-17. Wooden dolls, with figures of a mythical monster
painted on them. Nos. 20 23. Wooden dolls, with strings
of mud beads to represent hair. Nos. 24-26. Wooden dolls,
made in the form of Nubian women. No. 31. Painted
earthenware doil in the form of a captive with his hands
tied behind him, and a duck's head [No. 32,201]. No. 32.
Bronze doll, woman bearing a pot, or tiara, on her head
[No. 36,076]. No. ^t,. Earthenware doll, woman carrying
her child [No. 30,725]. No. 34. Earthenware doll, woman
nursing her child [No. 23,424]. No. 35. Earthenware doll,
good work [No. 2363]. No. 36. Limestone doll, with head-
dress painted black [No. 37,925]. No. 37. Painted
PLATE V.
Egyptian Toys.
i. Negro pursued by an animal.
3. Bronze doll, with moveable arms.
5. Wooden lion.
7. Wooden calf.
9. Porcelain elephant and rider.
II. Draughtsman, with head of Anubis.
2. Tainted, flat, headless wooden doll.
4. Wooden doll, with mud beads for hair.
6. Cat, with moveable jaw.
8. Wooden fish.
10. Draughtsman, with the head of Bes.
[To face page 180.]
DOLLS AND TOYS, DRAUGHTSMEN, DICE, ETC. I 8 1
earthenware doll, with head-dress painted [black and sur-
mounted by a cone [No. 21,953]. No. 38. Blue glazed
porcelain doll [No. 29,408]. No. 39. Bronze doll, with
moveable arms [No. 37,162]. No. 40. Portion of a glazed
porcelain doll, woman tiring her hair [No. 22,510]. No. 41.
Model of a Nubian woman carrying two children in a
basket, or bag, on her back [No. 32,594]. No. 42. Stone
figure of a man playing two pipes [No. 14,399]. No. 43.
Two wrestlers [No. 24,701]. No. 44. Ape driving a chariot
[No. 21,984]. Nos. 45-47. Groups of apes [Nos. 1460,
11,549, 11,888]. No. 48. Toy, man and moveable figure
of a dog [No. 26,254]. No. 49. Blue glazed porcelain
dwarf, with the head of a cat, Xllth dynasty [No. 22,883].
No. 50. Porcelain elephant, which originally had moveable
legs [No. 17,059]. No. 51. Wooden cat, with inlaid eyes
of crystal and moveable jaw [No. 15,671]. Nos. 52, 53.
Wooden cows [Nos. 21,891, 21,892]. No. 54. Blue glazed
porcelain lion killing its prey [No. 22,876]. No. 55. Blue
glazed porcelain lion couchant [No. 22,797]. No. 56.
Porcelain dog [No. 22,877]. No. 57. Porcelain hippopota-
mus [No. 22,880]. Nos. 58-63. Children's balls, made of
blue glazed porcelain, papyrus, leather stuffed with chopped
straw, leather stuffed with hair, thread, etc. [No. 6467, etc.].
Draught boxes and draughts. No. 64. Wooden draught
box, with drawer, and eleven pieces [No. 24,424]. No. 65.
Portion of a stone draught board, with nine pieces made
of earthenware [No. 14,315]. Late period. No. 66. Set of
draughtsmen, ten with heads of Bes, and seven with heads
of a jackal [Nos. 24,668, etc.]. No. 6j. A miscellaneous
group of draughtsmen, in porcelain and wood [Nos. 30,789,
etc.] No. 68. Limestone draughtsmen inscribed with the
titles and prenomen of Necho II. | T( O J ^ O] -r XI,
king of Egypt, about B.C. 630 [No. 38,254]. Dice. No. 69.
Crystal die [No. 37,467]. Nos. 70 J^. Bone dice [Nos. 6457,
etc.]. No. 74. Stone die [No. 37,466]. No. 75. Stone
object, with twenty facets, on each of which is cut a letter
of the Greek alphabet ; probably used in working magic
or for purposes of divination [No. 29,418]. No. y6.
Wooden knot, inscribed in gold with the prenomen of
Thothmes III., or of a king of the XXIInd dynasty
IS.
I ' >UR I II EGYPTIAN R< M >M ST \NI> \l:l-« ASE ' .
[No. [8,195]. -N"'- 77' Wooden model of a horse on
wheels. Late period | No. 38,142].
On the floor of the case are: No. 78. Wooden model
of a granary, from a tomb of the V Ith dynasty at Aswan in
Upper Egypt. The model contains seven bins, into which
the grain is supposed to be poured through holes in the
roof, and each is provided with a sliding door, over which
Wooden Model of a Granary, B.C. 3500. [No. 21,804.]
the name of the grain inside is written in hieratic. By the
side of the wooden stairs which lead to the roof stands the
keeper of the granary, and near him is the grain measure
which he uses. This model represents a building about
60 feet long by 15 feet high, and is one of the oldest
known. Presented by Lord Grenfell, 1888 [No. 21,804].
Nos. 79-81. Limestone and wood models of houses
[Nos. 36,872, etc.]. No. 82. Model of a door plated with
WOODEN MODELS OF GRANARIES. 1 83
electrum, or gold. ~\ In relief is a kneeling figure of
Nectanebus II., king of Egypt about B.C. 350, making an
offering of an utchat ^5^ , and above are his titles and
prenomen
KH^lAf a-d
a row of uraei with
disks [No. 38,255]. No. 83. Model of a man rolling dough
[Xo. 18,177]. No. 84. Bronze table of offerings, the upper
part of which is in the form of an altar r-a— ■ , with a com-
Interior of the Model of a Granary. [Xo. 21,804.]
(The side has been removed in order to show the names of the grain, written
in the hieratic character, which are above the shutters of the bins. The
keeper of the granary, with his measure, stands close to the steps.)
plete series of models of libation vases, saucers and other
vessels. This very interesting group was made for the
" chief reader " Atena /j\ ft 1(1 * (1 , whose alabaster
pillow and vases are exhibited in Wall-Case No. 138.
Vlth dynasty [No. 5315]. No. 85. Basalt socket for a door
to work in [No. 2446]. No. 86. Toy house, with moveable
door. [No. 23,075.]
i"ii;iu EGYPTIAN ROOM — STAN DARD-CASE C,
Shelf 3. On the small glass shelves is a scries of
bronze vases, jugs, etc., of various periods, chiefly of the
XX Mud and XXVIth dynasties. Suspended from the
frame arc the following :— No. Sy. Ladle, with handle
terminating in a duck's head. No. 88. Ladle with jointed
handle. No. <S< ). Lamp, with three feet, and lone; handle
terminating in a duck's head [No. 38,244, etc. J. No. 90.
l'aii- of bronze tongs for use at the altar | No. 20,817]. t)n
the large shelf are: — Nos. 91, 92. Heads of bronze cere-
monial standards, with figures of crocodiles, arrows, etc.
[Nos. 5498, 5499]. No. 93. I had of a standard with a
figure of Horns [No. 5500]. No. 94. Head of a lotus
standard, with figures of a cat and two kittens [No. 38,245 ] ;
it was dedicated to Bast. No. 95. Head of a lotus standard
with a seated figure of Harpocrates [No. 29,603]. Nos. 96 -
100. Bronze ends of standards, one of which (No. 96) is
ornamented with a figure of Bes [Nos. 23,4^7, etc.].
Nos. 101 103. Bronze votive buckets, ornamented with
figures of gods and goddesses, animals, birds, etc., in relief.
Xo. 101 was dedicated by Peta-Amen (1 (?)
A J I 1 /V^vV\A
[No. 36,319]. No. 104. Bronze pan from a pair of scales,
ornamented with linear designs, figures, etc. [No. 38,241].
Shelf 4. No. 105. Bronze measure (?) inscribed with
the name of Aincnartas, son of Aah mes (1 — •*— /fwj
I MAW a n P^ I
^\t'^=^ jTl 1 [No. 37,640]. No. 106. Bronze bowl, with
ornamental border on the edge, and a rosette at the base
[No. 37,915]. No. 107. Bronze cup of fine metal [No.38,202].
No. 108. Bronze wine-strainer, perforated with holes in
ornamental patterns and tin- inscription DIONYSIOSEPO
[No. 36,322]. No. 109. Bronze incense burner, with
receptacle for incense braced on the handle [No. 38,209].
No. 1 10. Bronze libation vase Iv [No. 36,318]. No. 111.
Bronze shovel or spoon for use at the altar [No. 38,210].
No. 112. King kneeling before a libation vase in the form
of a cartouche [No. 5296]. Nos. 113, 114. Handles of
bronze censers in the form of the heads of hawks [Nos.
5297, 38,247]. No. 115. Bronze vase, in the form of a flat
fish [No. 37,469]. No. 1 16. End of a bronze mendt,
BRONZE AND LEAD VESSELS, LIBATION BUCKETS. 1 85
ornamented with a design in which Horus is seen standing
among lotus flowers [No. 38,225]. Nos. 117-119. Models
of bronze altars [Nos. 2287, etc.]. No. 120. Bronze aegis
of Horus, dedicated by Pef-a-Heru, son of Puher and of
: Dl^^
Q
[No. 38,208]. Nos. 121, 122. Bronze vases, of the late
Coptic period [Nos. 20,781, 30,738]. No. 123. Lead vase,
with cover having handle [No. 5339].
On the floor of the case are: — No. 124. Massive lead
jar, with cover, which has been securely fastened ; contents
unknown [No. 22,111]. Nos. 125-134. A group of fine
bronze vases, bowls and jars [Nos. 5326, etc.]. No. 135.
Large wooden model of a house and granary enclosed
within walls. The grain is supposed to be stored in three
bins, each of which is provided with a sliding door. Under
the stairs which lead to the roof is the apartment in which
the guardian and his wife live, and on the roof is a small
chamber, open towards the north, in which the guardian of
the granary kept watch. Before him, on a small stand,
are the remains of his food, which consisted of grapes,
dates, some fruit of the cherry class, and grain. In the
courtyard below is a model of his wife or daughter, who is
rolling dough on a kneading trough, at one end of which is
a hollow for flour [No. 2463]. Suspended from the roof
of the case are the three following very fine specimens of
libation buckets, ornamented with inscriptions and figures of
gods, etc. : — No. 1 36. Libation bucket made for Peta-Amen-
neb-nest-taui [No. 38,2 1 2]. As the deceased was a priestly
official of king Nekht-Heru-heb ( ^ Wl^kCD 1'
this object must have been made about B.C. 378. No. 137.
Libation bucket made for Ra-mes \)~^~~ 3f > the son °f
a priest and a sistrum bearer of Heru-Behutet [No. 38,213].
No. 138. Libation bucket of a "scribe of the wonders of
Amen," called " Peta-Amen-neb-nest-taui " □ A ^~ ^
' '" 'Vffi, the son of Pekhar-Khensu □ T # 1 and the
lady Ast-em-khebit fj^ Q JCJ| [No. 38,214 .
[86 FOURTH EGYPTIAN ROOM— STAN DARD-CAS] C
Wooden Model ok a House. [No. 2463.]
(The side has been removed in order to show the arrangement of the grain bin
in the courtyard, and the figure of the woman making dough.)
SCARABS. 1 87
TABLE-CASES D, E, G and I. Here is exhibited a
large and exceedingly fine collection of scarabs, that is say,
models of a certain beetle which have been found inside the
swathings of mummies, and in rings on their fingers, and
in chambers of tombs, and in ruins of temples and other
buildings in Egypt and other countries, the inhabitants of
which had trading and other relations with the Egyptians.
These models are made chiefly of steatite, glazed with blue,
green, and other colours ; hard stones, e.g., amethyst,
carnelian, onyx, mother-of-emerald, basalt, green schist, and
of porcelain, wood, and, though rarely, of gold and bronze.*
The beetle which was copied in this manner belongs to the
family called by naturalists Scarabccidce (Coprophagi, i.e.,
dung-eaters), of which Xhescarabtrus sacer is the type. The
species are generally of a black hue, but among them are
to be found some adorned with the richest metallic colours.
A remarkable peculiarity exists in the structure and
situation of the hind legs, which are placed so near the
extremity of the body, and so far from each other, as to
give the insect a most extraordinary appearance when
walking. This peculiar formation is, nevertheless, parti-
cularly serviceable to its possessors in rolling the balls of
excrementitious matter in which they enclose their eggs.
The balls are at first irregular and soft, but by degrees,
and during the process of rolling along, become rounded
and harder ; they are propelled by means of the hind legs.
The balls are from one to two inches in diameter, and in
rolling them along the beetles stand almost upon their
heads, with their heads turned from the balls, which are
rolled into holes previously prepared by the insect. At a
very early period the Egyptians evolved some remarkable
ideas concerning this particular kind of beetle. Because it
flew during the nottest part of the day, it was believed to
be connected with Ra, the Sun-god, and a deceased king is
said to have entered the boat of the Sun in the form of the
scarab. The ball of dung containing its eggs was compared
with the sun itself, and because it was rolled along the
ground as the sun's globe was rolled across the sky, and
because both it and the sun were sources of life, the beetle
was called the " roller," in Egyptian " Kheprera " "gj <__> \ >
* Nos. 30,701, 30,713. (Table-Case D, No. 1257, and Table-Case
G, No. 805.)
[88
loUKlll EGYPTIAN ROOM— TABLE-CASE G.
and was connected by the Egyptians with the great god
Khepera, who was a form of the Sun-god, and was one of the
chief gods of creation known to them. Nowtheeggsol the
hectic were hatched by the heat of the sun, and the young
larvae fed upon the matter of
which was made the ball in which
they had been laid, and this fact
suggested to the early Egyptians
^0» the comparison between the egg-
' ball of the beetle and the dead
human body, for each was formed
of corruptible matter, and each
contained a living germ, or po-
tential life : the egg-ball covering
the germs which would develop
into beetles, and the dead material
body the germ of the incorrup-
tible spiritual body which would,
under proper conditions, be de-
veloped from it. Now, the god
Khepera also represented inert
but living matter which was
about to begin a course of exis-
tence, and at a very early period
he was regarded as a god of the
Resurrection ; and since the
scarab was identified with him,
that insect became at once the
symbol of the god and the type
of the resurrection. And as the beetle had given potential
life to its eggs in the ball, so, it was thought, would a
model of the scarab, itself the symbol of Khepera, also
give potential life to the dead body upon which it was
placed, always provided that the proper " words of power "
were first said over it or written upon it. When once
the custom of burying scarabs with the dead became
recognized, the habit of wearing them as ornaments by the
living came into fashion, and as a result scarabs of almost
every sort and kind may be found by the thousand.
Besides being enclosed between the swathings of mummies,
large numbers of scarabs have been found lying loose in
The god Khepera.
SCARABS INSCRIBED WITH NAMES OF KINGS. 1 89
coffins, and even in shallow holes dug in the tomb under
the place where the coffin rested. It is recorded that in
1854, in a tomb at Thebes, the late Sir J. G. Wilkinson
found, buried beneath the sepulchral stele that stood near
the head of the coffin, a hoard of scarabs, some thousands
in number, which had been placed there to insure the
resurrection of the occupant of the tomb.
In TABLE-CASE D are arranged chronologically
stone and porcelain scarabs, cylinder-seals, etc., inscribed
with the names and titles of kings and queens of Egypt,
and other royal personages, and scarabs inscribed with
imitations of royal names ; all the important dynasties from
about B.C. 4400 to about B.C. 500 are represented. Scarabs
were not in common use during the Ptolemaic and Roman
periods, and there is no evidence that they were ever used
as money. Nearly every scarab in this case has been
selected for exhibition for some peculiarity of form, or
colour, or inscription, and the collection as a whole is the
most typical and representative known. Noteworthy
scarabs and cylinders are : —
No. 1. Cylinder-seal of a king of the 1st dynasty,
B.C. 4400. No. 2. Cylinder-seal of Ath, (?) a king of the
1st dynasty. No. 7. Scarab of Khufu, or Cheops, the
builder of the Great Pyramid at Gizeh, B.C. 3700. No. 12.
Scarab of Khafra, or Khephren, the builder of the
Second Pyramid at Gizeh. No. 19. Scarab of Menkaura,
or Mycerinus, the builder of the Third Pyramid at Gizeh.
No. 23. Cylinder-seal of Sahura, B.C. 3533. No. 25.
Cylinder-seal of Userkaf, B.C. 3500. No. 32. Scarab of
Unas, the builder of a pyramid at Sakkara, B.C. 3333.
No. 38. Cylinder-seal of Pepi I. Men-Ra, B.C. 3233.
No. 39. Bronze cylinder-seal of Pepi I. Meri-Ra. No. 40.
Massive cylinder-seal inscribed with the name of Pepi I.,
Meri-Ra. No. 48. Scarab of Pepi II., B.C. 3166. No. 63.
Scarab of Amenemhat I., B.C. 2466. Nos. 67, 70 and 76.
A bead, a cylinder-seal, and a scarab of Usertsen I.,
B.C. 2433. No. 91. Cylinder-seal of Amenemhat II.,
B.C. 2400. No. 94. Cylinder-seal of Usertsen II., B.C. 2366.
No. 103. Cylinder-seal, fluted, of Usertsen III., B.C. 2333.
Nos. 11.1-130. Cylinder-seal and scarabs of Amen-
[g ■ FOURTH EGYPTIAN RO< >M TABL1 I \-l D.
emhat III., B.C. 2300. No. 134. Cylinder-seal of Sebek-
neferu, B.C. 2250; beautiful work. No. 1 41. Scarab of
Sebek-hetep II. , B.C. 2200. Nos. [46 [55. Scarabs of
Sebek-hetep III., B.C. 2150. No. [59. Scarab of Queen
Sat-Sebek, B.C. 2200. No. [61. Scarab of Queen Anna,
B.C. 1900. No. \6y. Scarab of Uatchkara, B.C. 1900.
Nos. 196.197- Scarabs of Khian, B.C. [800. No. 215.
Cylinder-seal of Antef V., B.C. 1850. No. 228. Blue glass
scarab of Aahmes I., B.C. 1700. Nos. 230, 231. Carnelian
beads of Queen Nefert-ari, B.C. 1700. Nos. 246-297.
Scarabs, plaques, and cylinder of Amen-hetep I., B.i .
1666. Nos. 302 320. Scarabs, etc., of Thothmes I., B.C.
1633. Nos. 321 323. Scarabs of Thothmes II., B.C. 1600.
Nos. 324-358. Scarabs, etc., of Queen Hatshepset, B.C.
1600. Nos. 359 ;-^. Scarabs of Thothmes III., B.C. 1600.
Nos. 759-767. Scarabs with the prenomens of Thothmes
III. and other kings. Nos. 768-811. Scarabs of Amen-
hetep II., B.C. 1500. Nos. 812-833. Scarabs, rings, etc., of
Thothmes IV., B.C. 1500. Nos. 834 976. Scarabs, rings,
etc., of Amen-hetep III., and of Queen Thi, B.C. 1466.
Among the scarabs of Amen-hetep III. here exhibited
is a group of large historical scarabs which were
made to commemorate such events in his reign as he
considered of great importance. Nos. 922-924 record
the names and titles of Amen-hetep III. and the Mesopo-
tamian princess Thi f J \\ \\[\ J, the daughter of Iuaa and
Thuau ; they also state that the boundary of his kingdom
in the south was at Karei t-J [m ^^ j anc{ jn fae
/wwv
North at Neharina (Northern Mesopotamia) r—,
■u l^^^i . No. 923 was presented by C. Innes
Pocock, Esq., 1884. Nos. 925-929 are inscribed with the
names and titles of Amen-hetep III. and Thi, and the
statement that during the first ten years of his reign the
king shot 102 fierce lions witli his own hand jT^ 3^
On each side of No. 927 is the cartouche of Amen-hetep III.
SCARABS OF AMEN-HETEP III.
IQI
Neb-Maat-Ra f o |j) ^37 1 . No. 926 was presented by
G. Bullock, Esq., 1856; and No. 929 by Mrs. Eustace
Smith. On scarabs of Amen-hetep III. the prenomen of
Thothmes III. is sometimes found; see Nos. 977-979.
Nos. 980-1002. Scarabs, rings, a mould, etc., of Amen-
hetep IV. or Khu-en-Aten, B.C. 1430. Nos. 1036- 1042.
No. 922. Scarab of Amen-hetep III.,
recording the names of the parents
of Queen Thi. [No. 29,437.]
No. 929. Scarab of Amen-h-jtep III.,
recording the slaughter of 102 lions
by the king, in the first ten years
of his reign. [No. 12,520.]
Scarabs and ring of Ai, B.C. 1460. Nos. 1043-105 5.
Scarabs, etc., of Heru-em-heb, B.C. 1466. Nos. io;6 -1062.
Scarabs of Rameses I., B.C. 1400. Nos. 1063-1103.
Scarabs of Seti I., B.C. 1366. Nos. 1104-1185. Scarabs
of Rameses II., B.C. 1333. No. 1203. Scarab of Amen-
meses, B.C. 1250. No. 1205. Scarab of Seti II., B.C. 1230.
ig2 FOURTH EGYPTIAN ROOM— TABLE-CASE D.
Nos. [217 [235. Scarabs of Rameses III., B.C. 1200.
Nos. [236 [252. Scarabs of Rameses IV., B.C. [166.
Nos. [253, etc. Scarabs of Rameses VIII., B.C. 115". No.
[268 flf. Scarabs of Shashanq I. (Shishak , B.i . 975. No.
Iff. Scarabs of Pamai, B.C. 825. No. [309. Lapis-
lazuli scarab of Queen Amenartas, B.C. 725. No. [328 ff.
Scarabs of Shabaka,
Shep-en-Apt, Taharq
(Tirhakah), Psammeti-
chus I., and Psammeti-
chus II., of the XXVIth
dynasty, B.C. 666 600.
At the end of this
case is a large group
Nos. [373-1587) of
scarabs, etc., which are
inscribed with names
imitated from royal
prehomens and nomens ;
they belong to various
periods, and a few of
them are probablycopies
of genuine scarabs, of
local manufacture, which
were made during the
Roman period, or in
modern times. It must
be noted that the dates
given in the above para-
graphs are those of the
reigns of the kings
whose names are found
on the scarabs, and they do not therefore always represent
the age of the objects mentioned. The names of favourite
kings were inscribed on scarabs for hundreds of years after
those who bore them were dead, e.g., Ra-MEN-KHEPER
nr^H' tne Prenomen °f Thothmcs III., was used as a
talisman or amulet from the date of his reign to the Ptole-
maic period, indeed it seems to have been copied on scarabs
loner after its meaning: had been forgotten.
No. 921. Scarab recording the names
and titles of King Amen-hetep and
Queen Thi. [No. 29,438.]
CYLINDER SEAL OF RU-NEFER. 193
TABLE-CASE E. Scarabs— continued. Here are
exhibited some eighteen hundred scarabs made of steatite,
glazed blue or green, amethyst, carnelian, lapis-lazuli, blue
paste, etc., inscribed with the names of gods, priestly and
other officials, and private persons, and a number of
cylinder-seals, rings, plaques : some of them forming the
bezels of rings, beads, and amulets in the form of
frogs, etc. The dates of these objects cover the best
periods of Egyptian dynastic history. The oldest object
in the case is the cylinder-seal of Ru-nefer, an official of
the 1st dynasty, about B.C. 4400; it was presented by Mr.
Somers Clarke in 1899. [No. 1.] The most important group
in the case is that containing the cylinders and scarabs
inscribed with the names and titles of officials who
flourished under the first six dynasties (Nos. 1-1 86), and
many of the rings (Nos. no9ff.) are remarkable for the
beauty of their colour. Some of the objects in carnelian
are worthy of note, especially the bead, No. 1634,
inscribed with the name of "Amen-hetep, the overseer
of the treasury," who flourished about B.C. 1500.
TABLE-CASE P.— See page 209.
TABLE-CASE G. Scarabs— continued. A miscel-
laneous collection of stone and porcelain scarabs, plaques,
rings, seals, etc., inscribed with the names of private
persons, emblems, floral and other designs, from about
B.C. 1500 to the end of the dynastic period, about B.C. 350.
The materials employed consist of steatite, hard stone,
e.g., basalt, carnelian, lapis-lazuli, blue paste, glass, etc.,
and the fine group of rings (Nos. 3057 ff.) in glazed
porcelain illustrates the skill of the workman and the
pitch of perfection to which the art of working this
difficult material was brought in the XVIIIth and
XlXth dynasties. Not the least interesting object in
this case, from an archaeological point of view, is the
bronze scarab No. 30,713, which is probably unique.
TABLE-CASE H.— See page 214.
TABLE-CASE I. Funeral scarabs. The greater
number of these measure from half an inch to two
inches in length, and they are usually made of porcelain,
O
i,,| F01 Kill l G"S PTIAN Ri lOM l A.BL1 C VSE l.
steatite, green schist, slate, basalt, granite, carnelian, lapis-
lazuli, etc. See Nos. i 250. Belonging to the same class
are the green basalt scarabs which were laid upon the
breasts of mummies, and were sometimes placed inside
the bodies of the dead, and were intended to take the
place of the heart. Of this section then' arc many
varieties, but the form most approved by the Egyptians
seems to have consisted of a scarab of fine, hard basalt,
let into a gold frame, to which was attached a fine gold
wire for hanging round the neck. The bases of large
funeral scarabs are usually inscribed with the text of
the XXXtli Chapter of the Book of the Dead, but some-
times we find on them only figures of the gods, cut in
outline ; occasionally the inscriptions are merely written,
and not cut into the stone. Funeral scarabs formed part
of the stock-in-trade of the Egyptian undertaker, and a
blank space was often left at one end of the base wherein
the name of the deceased person for whom it was intended
could be inserted. The text which is inscribed on the
base of funeral scarabs is commonly known as the
"Chapter of a heart of green jasper," or the "Chapter
of not allowing the heart of a man to be repulsed in the
Underworld," and it is undoubtedly very ancient, for
tradition asserted that the composition was known in the
reign of Semti, the fifth king of the 1st dynasty, about
B.C. 4400. According to the rubric of the XXXth or
LXIVth Chapter of the Book of the Dead, it was to
" be recited over a scarab of green jasper, which was to
" be mounted in a frame of smu metal, and to be provided
" with a silver ring, and then laid upon the neck of the
"deceased." A rendering of the inscription on funeral
scarabs is as follows : — " O my heart, my mother ; O my
" heart, my mother ! O my heart of my existence upon
"earth. May naught stand up to oppose me in judgment
" in the presence of the lords of the trial ; let it not be
" said of me and of that which 1 have done, ' He hath
"done deeds against that which is right and true'; may
" naught be against me in the presence of the great god,
"the lord of Amentet. Homage to thee, O my heart!
" Homage to thee, 0 my heart ! Homage to you, O my
" reins ! Homage to you, O ye gods who dwell in the
SEPULCHRAL SCARABS. 195
" divine clouds, and who are exalted (or holy) by reason
" of your sceptres ! Speak ye [for me] fair things to Ra,
" and make ye me to prosper before Nehebka. And
" behold me, even though I be joined to the earth in the
" mighty innermost parts thereof, let me remain upon the
"earth and let me not die in Amentet, but become a spirit
" {Khu) therein." The most noteworthy scarabs in this
case are : —
No. 290. Scarab with a figure of the Bennii bird, and
inscribed, " heart of Ra, the divine one."
I O
I <^> ; • [NO. 7878.]
I v\ U
No. 291. Scarab made for a scribe and steward of the
palace of a queen called Tetthi, ^ 1(1(1. [No. 7877.]
No. 300. Scarab inscribed on the base with figures of
Osiris, Isis, and Nephthys. [No. 7930.]
No. 301. Hard green crystalline stone scarab, on a
plinth in the form of a vase, made for the lady Aui
fl \\flO. On the back of the scarab is a prayer that the
deceased may have a boat in which to sail, that her eyes
and her ears may be given to her, and that she may see
the " land of the gods." [No. 7925.]
No. 310. Scarab inscribed on the back with figures of
the gods Ra. and Temu, the two utchats 5fTi, and the
lunar crescent with disk. [No. 7886.]
No. 364. Stone heart, in the form of a vase, inscribed
with a figure of a beetle on one side, and a copy of
Chapter XXXb of the Book of the Dead in paint on the
other. [No. 8003.]
No. 371. Green stone heart, inscribed for the royal
scribe Nekht-Amen. [No. 15,619.]
No. 373. Wooden funeral scarab, inscribed with a
prayer for sepulchral offerings on behalf of Reru, a singing
woman in the temple of Amen. [No. 24,752.]
No. ^y. Green basalt scarab, sculptured with a human
face. [No. 15,516.]
O 2
I , /,
I I il II M EGYPTIAN l« >0M T \l:i I -I ^SE I.
No. 589. Green schist heart scarab, set in a frame of
gilded metal, to which portions of the substances used in
mummifying the body wherein it was found still cling.
[No. 29439.]
X<>. 402. Black stone scarab, on a plinth in the form
of a pvlon ; it was made for Piaai
f\. In the
design on the plinth the oval of the scarab is seen above
the symbol of the horizon. [ No. 7858.]
No. 408. Green schist heart-scarab, on the vase of
which the name and titles of the deceased have been
painted and varnished. From Kurna. Xlltli dynasty.
[No. 29,224.]
No. 409. Green stone heart-scarab, with human head
in relief.
No. 416.
"Heart" scarab, inscribed with a
version of Chapter XXXb of the
Book of the Dead. [No. 7S99.]
[No. 7999.]
No. 416. Black stone
heart-scarab, inscribed with a
copy of Chapter N XX r, of the
Book of the Dead on behalf
[No. 7899-]
No. 417. Cobalt coloured
porcelain scarab, painted with
a figure of the Bennu bird.
[No. I5.439-]
No. 418. Similar scarab,
with human face inlaid in red
porcelain. [No. 29,440.]
No. 419. Stone human-
headed heart, inlaid with the
figure of a Bennu bird ; at the
back of the head are the
remains of a bronze pin.
[No. 8006.]
dark stone human-headed
No. 420. Portion of a
heart, inlaid with a figure of the soul in red and blue
porcelain. [No. 8005.]
SErULCHRAL SCARABS AND PECTORALS.
197
In the last section of the case is a fine collection of blue
and green glazed porcelain pectorals, or breast ornaments,
for mummies, and funeral scarabs of the same material.
The most interesting are : —
No. 499. Massive blue glazed porcelain funeral scarab.
[No. 30,050.]
No. 506. Cobalt and yellow glazed pectoral in the form
of a pylon, ornamented with a figure of Anubis and the
winged utchat.
Pectoral, with human-headed Heart-Scarab.
[No. 29,369.1
[No. 7853.]
No. 507. Pec-
toral, similarly
shaped, in blue
porcelain.
[No. 14,654.]
No. 5 1 5. Yellow
porcelain pectoral
inlaid with figures
of Isis and Neph-
thys, and symbols
of amulets, and a
heart - scarab, in-
scribed with the
name of the lady
Pen - seneb
/www (U
$■ [No. 7865.]
No. 520. Similar object inlaid with a boat and figures
of Isis and Nephthys, and a human-headed heart-scarab,
which takes the place of the solar disk in the boat. On
the back are painted symbols of stability and the blood of
Isis. [No. 29,369.]
1 98
FOURTH EGYPTIAN ROOM.
LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL EGYPTIAN KINGS
WHOSE NAMES ARE FOUND ON SCARABS.
f annum
j
Men; 1
HCH]
Ateth.
&CEO MC^p
1>
Sem-ti.
I .]-.■
I cheser.
&C0.?«-O| ¥
Nefer-ka-Ra, son of the i
mCFS¥
Seneferu.
I limi.
^-^
0Q
Kha-f-Ra. (Chephren.]
Merlin
Khufu. (Cheops.)
Gr^UU j
Men-kau-Ra. (Mycerinus.)
•
^1]
Usr-ka-f.
Sah-u-Ra.
MC3EI s? a.
Usr-en-Ra, son of the Sun, An.
Tet-ka-Ra, son of the Sun,
Assa.
<a o \_ www _/|
Unas.
LIST OF PRINCIPAL KINGS.
199
o
S11
Meri-Ra, son of the Sun, Pepi (I.
O
Mer-en-Ra, son of the Sun, Mehti-em-sa-f.
i(E
Nefer-ka-Ra, son of the Sun, Pepi (II.)
O
a
™f ^\
Sehetep-ab-Ra, son of the Sun, Amen-em-hat (I.)
O
(My] ¥ Cin
Kheper-ka-Ra, son of the Sun, Usertsen (I.).
ta,
UUl ^°
a
Nub-kau-Ra, son of the Sun, Amen-em-hat (II.).
\
0
Kheper-kha-Ra, son of the Sun, Usertsen (II.).
O
suy
f1
:^f
/vwwv n
Kha-kau-Ra, son of the Sun, Usertsen (III.).
0
r% ■■= \^ww^,^J. fl ^/] _/J V_ ' /www -B^ £2> j\
*A/WW .
Maat-en-Ra, son of the Sun, Amen-em-hat (III.).
MC3JM ^G CCS21
Maa-kheru-Ra, son of the Sun, Amen-em-hat (IV. ).
200
FOURTH EG"* PTIAN R< ll IM.
mi in]
ii' feru-Ra.
A. Q'^:F^[=g=, Uj
Ra-sekhem-khu-taui Sebek-hetep (I.)
Sekhem-seuatch-taui-Ra, son of the Sun, Sebek-hetep (II.).
a
^ n
Kha-nefer-Ra, son of the Sun, Sebek-hetep (III.).
O
c\ <rs \_ a U
^ D
Kha-hetep-Ra, son of the Sun, Sebek-hetep (IV.).
mQ^f} ¥ orfl
Kha-ankh-Ra, son of the Sun, Sebek-hetep (V.).
*
0
f II
Sekhem-uatch-khau-Ra, son of the Sun, Sebek-em-sa-f (I.)-
1 J
Sekhem-shet-taui-Ra, son of the Sun, Sebek-em-sa-f (II.).
O
Aa-peh-peh-Set, son of the Sun, Nub-Set (?)
O
M( %3
*%0
o 0s
¥ (Mil)
Neter nefer Aa-ab-taui-Ra, son of the Sun, Apepa.
Beautiful god,
LIST OF PRINCIPAL KINGS.
201
1 T C S^ A ^
M( n
or neter nefer Aa-qenen-Ra.
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I l I
Seqenen-Ra, son of the Sun, Tau-aa
? O
/WW\A ^\|
Seqenen-Ra, son of the Sun, Tau-aa-aa.
I I I r-w-i
2?*2 y zi AAAAAA ^
o
^ o
a \^j\
Seqenen Ra, son of the Sun, Tau-aa-qen.
Uatch-kheper-Ra, son of the Sun, Karnes.
Suten hemt Aah-hetep.
Royal wife.
kqi
a
Aah-mes-sa-pa-ari.
Ksl'M
¥
tfi
>
->
Neb-peh-peh-Ra, son of the Sun, Aahmes.
(Amasis I.)
Tcheser-ka-Ra, son of the Sun, Amen-hetep.
(Amenophis I.)
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(Queen I fatshcpsu. )
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(Thothines III.)
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(Amenophis II.)
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(Thothmes IV.)
Neb-maat-Ra, son of tin1 Sun, Amen-hetep beq Uast.
(Amenophis III.)
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M
Tin.
(The Mesopotamian \\ife of Amenophis III.)
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Nefer-kheperu-Ra-ua- son of the Sun, Amen-hetep neter hi q
en-Ra, Uast (Amenophis IV.).
LIST OF PRINCIPAL KINGS.
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Royal wife, great lady.
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ari-Ra, heq Uast.
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Tcheser-kheperu-Ra- son of the Sun, Amen-meri-en Heru-
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Men-pehtet-Ra, son of the Sun, Ra-messu.
(Rameses I.)
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(Seti I.)
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Royal ■•
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ni' ri-( n-Ami n, son of the Ptah-nv ri-en-^j tep b< i
Sun,
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Men-ma-Ra setep-en-Ra, son of the Sun, Amen-nieses-heq-Uast.
(Ann n-mi
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(Meneptah II.)
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Usr-khau-Ra setep-en-Ra son of the Sun, Ra-meri Amen-merer
meri-Amen, Set-nekht.
(Set-Nekht.)
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Usr-maat-Ra-meri-Amen, son of the Sun, Ra-meses-beq-Annu.
(Rameses III.)
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Amen, Ra heq maat.
(Rameses IV. )
LIST OF PRINCIPAL KINGS.
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Usr-maat-Ra s-kheper- son of the Sun, Ra-mes-meri-Amen-
en-Ra, Amen suten-f.
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meri-neb, heq Annu.
(Rameses VI.)
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setep-en-Ra, heq-Annu.
(Rameses VII.)
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Amen,
Amen.
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Lord of the Amen,
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lord of crowns, (Rameses IX.)
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en-Ra, kha-Uast (?).
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si tep-en-Ra, (Shashanq I.)
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Kherp-kheper-Ra sonoftheSun, Amen-meri (Jasarken.
setep-en-Ra, (Osorkon I.)
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Usr-Maat-Ra, son of the Sun,
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Ra-usr-maat setep-en- son of the
Amen, Sun,
Amen-meri sa-Bast
Uasarken.
(Osorkon II.)
Kheper-sekhem-Ra. son of the Sun,
setep-en-Amen,
Ainen- Ra-meri
Shash[anq].
(Shashanq II.)
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neter heq Uast, Sun, Thekeleth.
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setep-en-Ra,
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neter \Annu.
(Shashanq III.)
LIST OF PRINCIPAL KINGS.
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Usr-maat-Ra setep- son of the Amen-meri Pa-mai.
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Ra-nefer-tem-khu, son of the Sun, Tahrq.
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Uah-ab-Ra, son of the Sun, Psemthek. (Psammetichus I.)
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Nem-ab-Ra, son of the Sun, Nekau. (Necho II.)
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Haa-ab-Ra, son of the Sun, Uah-ab-Ra. (Apries. )
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Khnem-ab-Ra, son of the Sun, Aahmes-sa-net. (AmasisII.)
Ankh-ka-en-Ra, son of the Sun, Psemthek.
(Psammetichus III.)
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AMULETS, NECKLACES, PENDANTS, ETC.
209
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Artakhshashas.
(Artaxerxes.)
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setep-en-Amen, Amen,
(Nectanebus 1.)
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Kheper-ka-Ra, son of the Sun, Nekht-neb-f.
(Nectanebus II.)
TABLE-CASE F. Amulets, Necklaces, Pendants,
etc.
On the west side of this case is exhibited a large and
important series of Egyptian amulets, i.e., objects and
ornaments which were worn to protect the human body,
either living or dead, from baleful influences and from the
attacks of visible and invisible foes. The word amulet is
derived from the Arabic, and means "that which is worn,"
but it has been somewhat loosely applied to any talisman
or ornament to which supernatural powers are ascribed.
The Egyptians employed amulets in large numbers for the
protection of the dead, and they placed them either on the
mummy itself, or between the mummy swathings ; the use
of amulets probably dates from the end of predynastic
times, and it seems as if it was believed even in the earliest
period that in the stones which were selected magical
powers were inherent. When inscribed with the names of
!I0 FOURTH EGYPTIAN ROOM I \r.l.i CAS1 F.
gods, or with magical formulae ol a certain character, the
power of amulets was thought to be irresistible. The
common name for words of power of all kinds is " hekau "
fU U. 'ir1 '' ;l,,(' whether they were inscribed upon
amulets, or merely recited over them, the effect was the
same. The earliest use of "hekau " is mentioned in a text
which \\,is copied upon a wall in the tomb of King Unas
dine 584), kin-' <>t Egypt, about B.C. 3300.
Nos. I-45. Carnelian, red jasper, and red glass amulets
of the Buckle of the girdle of Isis (J; they symbolize
the "blood of Isis, and the strength of Isis, and the power
of Isis," and were believed to protect the wearer from every
kind of evil. The texts inscribed on Nos. 21, 22, 28, 30, etc.,
are portions of the CLVIth Chapter of the Hook of the
Dead.
Nos. 46-68. Amulets of the Snake's head cjg^. These
were placed in tombs, to prevent the deceased from being
bitten by snakes in the underworld, and some are inscribed
with portions of the XXXIVth Chapter of the Book of
the Dead, This amulet appears to have been associated
with Isis.
Nos. 69-136. Amulets of the Heart <>, in carnelian,
lapis-lazuli, mother-of-emerald, breccia, steatite, etc. These
amulets were connected with Chapters XXVII-XXXB of
'die Hook of the Dead, and the)- were supposed to bring
to the wearer the protection of these all-powerful com-
positions.
Nos. 138-140. The Amulet of the Menat fjjj was
symbolic of nutrition, strength, and the powers of genera-
tion and reproduction.
Nos. 142, 143. The Amulet of the Human-headed Fly
conferred on the wearer the power to ascend to heaven,
like a certain species of fly which was associated with Ra.
Nos. 145-187. The Amulet of the Tet n. This object
symbolizes the tree trunk in which Isis concealed the body
AMULETS. 211
of Osiris, and the four bars indicate the four branches of
the great World-tree, and typify the four cardinal points.
The " setting up of the Tet " was a ceremony which was
performed annually with great reverence at Busiris in the
Delta, and at Abydos in Upper Egypt, and it was always
associated with the building up of the backbone, and
reconstitution of the body of Osiris. The Tet represents
neither a mason's table nor a Nilometer. It was worn as
a symbol of " stability," and the amulet was sometimes
inscribed with the CLVth Chapter of the Book of the
Dead.
Nos. 188-237. The Amulet of the Papyrus Sceptre I
was intended to give youth, vigour, virile power, etc., to
the wearer. In late times it typified the power of Isis,
who derived it from the god of harvest, and it was worn
as a symbol of sound health ; it is sometimes associated
with Chapters CLIX and CLX of the Book of the Dead.
Nos. 239-268. The Amulet of the Pillow ^ is usually
made of haematite, and is inscribed with the text of the
CLXVIth Chapter of the Book of the Dead; it symbolized
the " raising up of the head " of the deceased, and it was
placed with the dead to prevent the head from being
carried away.
Nos. 270-277. The Amulet of the Cartouche (J,
i.e., of the oval made of rope tied into a knot at one end,
which is depicted on the monuments, and which encloses
the names of royal personages, is the symbol of the
" name " of a man or woman, and it was worn with the
view of preventing the name from being blotted out in
the next world.
Nos. 278-302. The Amulet of the Two Plumes W,
with and without the cartouche, symbolized the power or
height of heaven, and of the great gods of light and air,
e.g., Shu, Amen, etc. ; when the feathers refer to the two
Maat goddesses, they signify right or truth.
Nos. 306-336. The Amulet of the Nefer T signifies
" good luck," " happiness," and cognate ideas.
r 2
.'I • l"l l:l YI'TI \N l;<V i\1 1 \|:1 I I \>| I .
Nos. 337 \;o. The Amulet of the Utchat "^^
is symbolic of the Eye of Horus, and was intended to
bring the wearer strength, vigour, protection, safety, good
health, etc. When two LJtchats are together 5M5 they
typify the Sun and the Moon. The word utchat means
primarily " strength," and it was applied to the Sun at the
summer solstice, i.e., when it was in its greatest strength
and was most powerful on earth.
Nos. 472-501. The Amulet of the Two Fingers
appears to have reference to the two fingers, index and
medius, which Horus stretched out to help his father up
the ladder which led from earth to heaven. Concerning
Pepi I., king of Egypt about B.C. 3300, it is said in a text,
" Pepi hath gathered together his bones, he hath collected
his flesh, and he hath gone quickly into heaven by means of
the Two Fingers of the god of the Ladder" {i.e., Horus).
This amulet is found in the interior of mummies, and is
usually made of obsidian or haematite.
No. 505. The Amulet Pesh-ken, surmounted by the
head of a goddess. The exact signification of this amulet
is unknown, but it appears to have been connected with
the idea of birth.
Nos. 510-520. The Amulet Sma IT symbolizes
physical happiness.
^os- 555-564. The Amulet of the Angle symbolizes
rectitude.
Nos. 565-577. The Amulet of the Plummet symbolizes
moral integrity.
Nos. 578-590. Mother-of-emerald plaques, which
were intended to be inscribed with extracts from
Chapter XXX B of the Book of the Dead.
Nos. 595-621. The Amulet of the Sun's Disk on the
horizon symbolized new birth, resurrection, etc.
Nos. 622-718. A miscellaneous group of amulets in
carnelian, red stone, lapis-lazuli, etc. One of the most
interesting of these is No. 626, which is in the form of an
elephant; No. 644 represents a bull being attacked by
NECKLACES OF GOLD AND HARD STONE BEADS. 213
some wild creature, probably a serpent. The exact use of
the split rings and their signification are unknown.
In the east side of the case is exhibited a fine
collection of necklaces, belonging to various periods
between B.C. 1700 and A.D. 100. The most interesting
are : —
No. 741. Necklace of variegated glass beads and
carnelian nefer pendants. No. 742. Necklace of small
gold and stone beads, with scarabs, and gold pendants
in the form of fish. No. 751. Necklace of small gold
and stone beads, with nefer pendants in gold, carnelian,
porcelain, gla s, etc. No. 753. Necklace of garnet and
amethyst beads. No. 757. Necklace of carnelian and
garnet beads, with pendants in the shape of hands c-*^ ,
fish Oct, utchats^g^, wasps y&Z , etc. No. 758. Neck-
lace of carnelian and amethyst beads, with gold pendant
inscribed with figures of Mut and Khonsu. No. 760.
Necklace of gold, lapis-lazuli and other beads, with
metal shells, and pendants in the forms of locks of hair,
fish, and the lotus, to which is attached the emblem of
millions of years Mr . No. 762. Necklace of carnelian
beads, with bud and lizard pendants in gold. No. 763.
Necklace of blue glazed faience beads, with a gold knot-
fastening. No. 766. Necklace of gold and carnelian beads,
with inlaid pendants in the form of the fruit of the persea
tree. No. 767. Necklace, with scorpion and " millions of
years " pendants Mm in gold. No. 768. Twenty-two
lapis-lazuli and agate (?) beads, each banded with gold.
No. 784. Necklace of carnelian beads capped with gold,
with gold pendants inlaid with topaz and garnet, and a
double fish with three pendent ur?ei ; Greek or Roman
period. No. 791. Necklace of a triple row of annular
gold beads, with gold chain fastenings terminating in
lapis-lazuli knobs. No. 792. Necklaces of gilded glass
beads, some of which are fluted. No. 797. Necklace of
gold beads, with a pendant in the form of a vase or heart.
Many of the other necklaces here exhibited are worthy
of examination, for they well illustrate the pitch of
214 FOURTH EGYPTIAN ROOM— TABLE-CASE H.
perfection to which tin- art of making glass and porcelain
lie ids was carried in the Ptolemaic and Roman periods.
Under the Greeks and Romans variegated glass beads
were greatly in fashion, and the use of the stones which
were associated with the dead by the ancient Egyptians
was not SO widespread as in the dynastic period.
TABLE-CASE H contains a group of interesting
antiquities from Thebes, which were presented by Jesse
I laworth, Esq., [887. These are : —
No. I. Legs and part of the frame of a large Chair of
State. The legs are in the form of bulls' legs, and the
hoofs were originally covered with plates of silver; each
leg is ornamented with a pair of gilded uraei, which
represent the sovereignty over the South and North. The
frame was covered with plates of silver, which were held
in position by bronze nails with gilded heads. The angle
supports of the back arc ornamented each with a urajus,
inlaid with silver annules. Tin's important object was
found in the famous pit of Der al-Bahari with the portion
of the wooden oval (No. 2) that bears the names of Queen
1 Iatshepset, about B.C. 1600, and it has been thought that
it was the great queen's throne ; but the evidence which
connects the chair with the wooden oval is very slight,
for it is well known that the pit contained many objects
which must have been hidden there some hundreds of
years after the original deposit was made. [No. 21,574.]
No. 2. Portion of a wooden oval which, when complete,
bore the name of Queen Hatshepset fl\ ^^ Q ^ ~J^ j§ j 1,
and that of a king. [No. 21,575.]
No. 3. Wood and Ivory draughtboard, with sliding
drawer and two draughtsmen. The square which marked
the winning point of the game is inscribed with the sign T.
[Nos. 21,576, etc.]
No. 4. Portion of an inlaid ivory and blue glazed
porcelain draughtboard, with one porcelain draughtsman.
[Nos. 21,577, 21,602.]
JEWELLERY — BRACELETS, RINGS, ETC. 21 5
Nos. 5-8. Ivory draughtsman, in the shape of a lion's
head, two ivory reels, and one astragalus.
[Nos. 21,580, 21,603-21605.]
Xos. 9-27. Wooden draughtsmen, in the shape of lions'
heads. [Xos. 21,592, etc.]
Nos. 28, 29. Two wooden figures of men ; fine work.
[Nos. 21,578, etc.]
Xo. 30. Alabaster shell, which was used at the toilet
for holding unguents. [Xo. 21,612.]
Xo. 31. Slate shell, with the handle in the form of the
symbol of life. [Xo. 21,611.]
Nos. 32, 23- Portions of two blue glazed porcelain
bangles. [Xos. 21,609, 21,610.]
Nos. 34, 35. Portions of two blue glazed porcelain
cylindrical objects. [Xos. 21,607, 21,608.]
TABLE-CASE J. Jewellery, bracelets, rings, neck-
laces, etc. The following objects are worth}' of note : —
Xo. 19. Gold spray, set with pearls [No. 16,979]. XTo. 47.
Gold breastplate, with ends terminating in hawks' heads.
XTo. 50. Gold heart, bequeathed by Dr. J. Anthony, 1895.
XTo. 66. Gold aegis of Bast, or Sekhet. XTo. 69. Two gold
figures ; late period. XTo. 72. Gold plate, stamped with
the cartouches Ka-en-Ra and Senefer-ka f U I
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f |l J \J I. Xo. 92. Bust of a deity wearing a disk. No. 94.
Green stone " Heart-scarab," set in a massive gold frame.
No. 96. XTecklace of gold beads, with pendants indicating
" millions of years." Xo. 101. Jackal-headed gold pendant.
No. 105. Gold uraeus, wearing the Teshert crown, symbolic
of sovereignty over Lower Egypt. Xo. 107. Pair of
massive gold bracelets ; Ptolemaic or Roman period.
No. 1 14. Gold Harpocrates. Xo. 116. Plaque, with head of
Hathor in relief. No. 132. "Heart-Scarab," with massive
gold setting and collar by which to fasten it to the neck
of the dead. Xo. 133. Hawk of gold, with outstretched
wings, inlaid with pieces of carnelian and lapis-lazuli ; the
claw grasps Q sJicn, the symbol of eternity.
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No . [34, [35. Pair oi gold bracelets, inlaid with lapis-
lazuli and blue paste. The centre scene represents Harpo
crate? sitting on a lotus flower between two uraei wearing
disks. Inside is inscribed in hieroglyphics a short texl
which says that these bracelets were " made for tin- princess,
'the daughter of the chief of all the bowmen, Nemareth,
"whose mother was tin- daughter of the prince of the land
"of Reshnes." Nemareth was the descendant in the fifth
generation of Buiu-uaua, a Libyan prince, and the father of
Shashanq I., Shishak of 1 Kings xiv., 25, King of Egypt
ab< nit B,< '. 966.
No. 136. "Heart-Scarab," with massive gold setting
and gold wire collar by which it was susp nded from the
neck. No. 137. Gold necklace ornament, or pendant, with
hinged lid ; it was probably used as an amulet case. The
zig-zag ornamentation is a fine example of this class of
work, and it should be noted that each small gold bead has
been soldered on separately. No. [38. Gold pendant in
the form of king seated on a throne. The face was
probably inlaid with lapis-lazuli, and the rich featherwork
tunic, the collar and necklace, etc., with red, blue, and green
paste. The ornament of the plinth of the throne, formed
by sceptres and symbols of "life" Ipllnrl' was filled
with coloured paste. The reverse of the pendant is care-
full}' chased with delicate feather work, the symbol of the
union of the two countries, etc. XlXth dynasty, or a little
later. No. 140. Flat gold bangle, with figures of various
amulets and animals in gold and silver alternately ; a very
rare and interesting specimen of Egyptian jeweller}-. Nos.
142 and 143. Hollow gold scarabs, the bases of which are
stamped with the prenomen of Thothmes 1 1 I., or that of
one of the priest kings. Presented by T. Gibson, Esq., 1897.
No. 154. Portion of a fine gold fibula. No. 156. Human-
headed hawk, symbol of the soul, with outspread wings,
inlaid with lapis-lazuli and mother-of-emeraid. No. 157.
Portion of a gold pendant; two birds, standing, one on
each side of a cluster of lotus plants. No. 175. Gold lion;
fine work. On the base is inscribed jA T ^A 1 ^
y^ y v^ o J> 0 7> 1 JM^
"^"^m]/ $r Nos. 176,177. Pair of gold lions, man-headed.
GOLD RINGS. 217
No. 182. Pendent head of Hathor, with necklace inlaid
with white and blue enamel (?).
No. 195. Fine green stone scarab, with human face,
set in a plinth of gold. On the base of the plinth are
stamped extracts from Chapters XXXb and LX1V of the
Book of the Dead, and on the edge is cut, " King Sebek-
em-sa-f," 1 ( p J ^z^> J^ gj*0 J . Sebek-em-sa-f was
a king of the XlVth dynasty, B.C. 2300, and it is probable
that this most important object was made for him. It was
found at Kurna (Thebes) by Mr. Salt. [No. 7876.]
Nos. 197-266. Gold rings, set with scarabs, plaques,
etc., from the XVIIIth dynasty to the Roman period.
The most interesting are : —
No. 198. Gold ring, with lapis-lazuli bezel inscribed
with the prenomen of Thothmes III. foH^l.
[No. 14,349-]
No. 199. Gold ring, with bezel inscribed with a scorpion
dw, and surmounted by a frog. [No. 2923.]
No. 201. Gold ring, with lapis-lazuli scarab, inscribed,
" Maat-ka-Ra, flesh and blood of Amen-Ra " f O $ ul ft ^^
r^3. Maat-ka-Ra is the prenomen of Queen Hatshepset.
[No. 2933.]
No. 202. Gold ring, with rectangular lapis-lazuli plaque.
On the one side is inscribed y y^ M, and on the other a
man-headed lion crushes a prostrate foe with his paw.
Above are the prenomen and titles of Thothmes III.,
" Beautiful god, conqueror of all lands, Men-kheper-Ra
!J°°^5°=EI- [No. 2934.]
No. 203. Modern ring, set with a plaque of mille-nori
glass, with a figure of a human-headed hawk, symbolic of
the soul. [No. 20,871.]
No. 204. Gold ring, set with a steatite scarab, inscribed
with the name of Ptah-mes fi (| iwl , an official who was
a Sent priest and the high priest of Memphis. [No. 2939.]
2l8 FOURTH EGYPTIAN ROOM— TABLE-CASE 1.
UK Ml IMMIIl.il lllMI IIWI1H..II III OlJlbllclrt 1.
4§K^1 QlMT].[xo. .4.345.]
No. 217. Gold ring, set with a steatite scarab inscribed
with the prenomen and nomen of Shishak I.
No. 222. Gold ring, inscribed with the name Ra-neferu
©JJJl- [No. 36,467-]
No. 223. Gold ring, inscribed EnATAOn.
[No. 26,322.]
No. 225. Gold ring, set with a green stone scarab
inscribed with four unci and four cartouches containing
the symbol of " life." [No. 36,466.]
No. 227. Gold ring, set with a scarab inscribed with
the symbols of " life " -¥-, and "vigorous, health}- exist-
Bcqueathed by Dr. J. Anthony, 1895.
[No. 23429.]
No. 228. Gold ring, set with a scarab inscribed with
the figure of a scorpion. [No. 27,732.]
No. 233. Gold ring, with three uraei having the heads
of Serapis, Isis, and Harpocrates ; late Ptolemaic period.
[No. 2965.]
No. 234. Gold ring, on the bezel of which is inscribed
a male figure dancing ; on his head is a cluster of lotus
flowers (?). [No. 17,822.]
No. 236. Gold ring, on the bezel of which is inscribed
a figure of a god with a serpent on his head, a scorpion in
his left hand, and a staff or bow in his right. [No. 26,323.]
No. 237. Gold ring, inscribed with the name of
Ptolemy III., son of Ra f ° ft ^ ^ H S\ ° I e=T| •
This is probably the official ring of a priest who belonged
to one of the orders of priests established by Ptolemy III.
[No. 36,468.]
No. 238. Gold ring, on the bezel of which is inscribed
the figure of a goddess seated in a boat under a canopy,
the pillars of which arc made in the form of papyrus
sceptres. [No. 16,977.]
GOLD RINGS, EARRINGS. 219
No. 239. Gold ring, on the bezel of which is inscribed
a seated figure holding the feather of Maat, the solar disk
with uraei, the symbol of " life " •¥-, and a flabelhim ft.
[No. 32,723-]
No. 240. Gold wire ring, set with a circular plaque, on
which in relief, within a rectangular border, is a figure of
the god Osiris. On the right of the frame is the headless
hide of a bull suspended by the tail over a vase, which
catches the blood, and on the left is the hawk of Horus.
Ptolemaic period (?). [No. 23,299.]
No. 246. Gold ring, the bezel of which is inscribed
with a figure similar to that of No. 234. [No. 2948.]
No. 247. Gold snake ring ; Graeco-Roman period.
[No. 15,840.]
No. 248. Gold ring, the rectangular bezel of which is
inscribed with II, the emblem of the eight gods of the
company of Thoth (?). [No. 14,374-]
No. 249. Gold ring, with the bezel in the form of a
rectangular plinth surmounted by a frog ; on the base of
the plinth is inscribed the figure of a cat seated on the
symbol for gold jg^ . [No ^&]
No. 251. Gold ring, with a rectangular solid gold
bezel ; on one side is the figure of a king wearing the
crown of the North, and on the other a seated figure of a
man holding a flower in his left hand. On the edges are
two ornamental borders. [No. 2924.]
No. 252. Gold ring, inscribed with the figure of a
deity ; compare No. 236. [No. 26,326.]
No. 266. Gold ring, inscribed with the prenomen
of Amen-hetep III., King of Egypt about B.C. 1450
(I =£== l f . Bequeathed by Ernest Hart, Esq., 1899.
[No. 30,446.]
Nos. 267-289. A miscellaneous group of gold earrings,
bangles, plaques, pendants for inlaying, a gold scarab, with
ornamental design on the base, etc., of various periods.
220
i "i RTH EGYPTIAN ROOM -TABLE-CASE J.
No. 290. Rectangular gold plate, stamped with hiero-
glyphics wt birds, sceptres, royal dress and sacred symbols.
[No. [4,380.]
Nos.29] 381. A miscellaneous collection of silver rings,
pendants, bangles, figures of gods, etc., of various periods.
Among them may be noted: No. 329, a leaden
human-headed hawk, with outstretched wings, a rare and
interesting object; No. 379, a metal aegis of Bast, with
part of the cord by which it was suspended from the neck
of the wearer.
No. 382. Sixty-four scarabs, beads, pendants, etc.,
made of agate, onyx, carnelian, lapis-lazuli, hard green
stone, etc., many being set in gold frames of very fine
workmanship. They belonged to a princess of the XXIInd
dynast}', B.C. 2500, and were found at Dahshur.
Nos. 383, 384. Two gold fish-pendants, B.C. 2 500.
[Nos. 30,482, 30,483.]
No. 385. Gold soul in the form of a human-headed
hawk, with outstretched wings ; the feathers were inlaid
with paste. [No. 14,376.]
Nos. 386, 387. Two gold fish-pendants, inlaid with
green stone. [Nos. 30,484, 30,485.]
Nos. 388, 389. Two gold and amethyst pendants for
necklaces; X I Ith dynasty. [Nos. 30,477, 30,478.]
No. 390. Silver ring, inscribed with the prenomen of
Amen-hetep IV.
CI
I /VNAAAA
[No. 29,436.]
No. 398.
No. 392. Silver ring, inscribed with the
titles of an official who was a scribe and
president of the granaries, a libationer, a
prophet of the fourth order, and with the
names of Psammetichus and Shashanq
(Shishak). [No. 24,777.]
No. 393. Silver ram's head, surmounted
by a urseus. [No. 18,300.]
No. 394. Silver ring, inscribed with the
name and titles of a priestly official.
Copper ring, inscribed W q"& &^s> ^
[No. 17,740.]
SILVER AND HARD STONE RINGS. 221
No. 399. Copper ring, inscribed I Pn ^ ^ \_J.
""[No. 29,038.]
No. 401. Silver ring, inscribed with the figure of a
goddess seated in a boat. [No. 2,960.]
No. 403. Silver ring, with rectangular bezel inscribed
with the name and titles of I-[em]-hetep ^\) T □ -U;|
if fi^- [No. 29,039.]
No. 410. Copper ring, inscribed with the name of
Tchet-hra |^. [No. 2951.]
No. 414. Silver bezel, in-cribed with the name of
Psammetichus, son of Neith □ I v\ 0^=k.
^ [No. 23,853.]
No. 427. Gold banded carnelian ring, the bezel ot
which is surmounted by the figure of a frog. [No. 2929.]
Nos. 429-445. Carnelian rings, the bezels of which are
inscribed with figures of sistra, figures of goddesses and
amulets, e.g., "^^, I, etc. These probably belong to the
period of the XXVlth dynasty.
Nos. 446-466. Carnelian scarabs, uninscribed. No. 467.
Carnelian turtle or tortoise. Nos. 468-560. Scarabs in
mother-of-emerald, lapis-lazuli, amethyst, etc., and miscel-
laneous figures, amulets, etc. Of special interest are :—
No. 529. Lapis-lazuli figure of ike god Khnemu, and No.
554. Hand from a hard, green crystalline figure of a man.
On the east side of the case is exhibited a very fine
collection of necklaces of haematite, garnet, crystal, ame-
thyst, carnelian, agate, and other hard stone beads, which
date from about B.C. 4200 to the Ptolemaic period. The
most interesting are : —
No. 561. Necklace of haematite beads ; earl}- empire (?).
No. 572. Necklace of garnet beads ; early empire (?).
No. 578. Necklace of round amethyst beads ; before
the Xllth dynasty.
222 FOUR I'll EGYPTIAN R< K >M I \i;i E-CASJ I.
No. 579- Necklace ol roughly cut crj >tal beads oi
various shapes; Vlth dynasty or earlier.
No. 582. Necklace ol roughly cut amethyst beads;
before the X I Ith dyn isty.
No. 590. Necklace of amethyst beads, of very fine
colours, with a gold hawk pendant.
No. 596. Necklace of amethyst beads of various shapes ;
early period.
No. 599. Necklace of amethyst beads, the ends capped
with gold ; Xllth dynasty.
No. 600. Necklace of amethyst, having hollow-work
gold beads, with utchat ^;,:^ gold pendant.
No. 607. Carnelian face, for inlaying in a plaque ;
very fine work.
No. 609. Necklace of carnelian beads, with pendants
in the form of the symbol for "good luck " T.
No. 62S. Necklace of round, flat carnelian beads, with
serrated edges and pendants II Ill-
No. 630. Necklace of small carnelian beads, with
pendants \\\\\.
No. 641. Necklace of carnelian, gold and agate beads
of various shapes.
TABLE-CASE K. On the west side of this case are
exhibited large and important collections of objects in
Egyptian porcelain, glazed blue, green, red, yell >w and
other colours, belonging to various periods, from about
B.C. 1200 to the end of the Ptolemaic period. On the east
side will be found a collection of small objects, e.g., amulets,
pendants, ornaments for necklaces, plaques for inlaying,
etc., made of glass of various colours. Noteworthy
objects are : —
No. 1. Blue porcelain scarab and figures of the children
of Horus, for attaching to the outer swathing of a mummy
[No. 20,856]. No. 2. Green porcelain amulets, an altar,
heads of Horus, crocodile, and two buckles, pierced for
PORCELAIN AMULETS, ETC. 223
attachment to the swathing of a mummy [No. 20,968].
No. 3. Porcelain scarab, with outstretched wings, pierced
with holes for sewing to the swathing of a mummy ; very
fine work. XXIInd dynasty. From Tuna [No. 26,229].
No. 4. A set of green glazed porcelain amulets consisting
of uraei, pendants, beads, scarabad, symbolic eye, ring, heart,
figures of Anubis, Isis, Nephthys, Mut, and Thoth, hearts,
emblems of stability, triad consisting of Isis, Horus, and
Nephthys, two fingers, plumes, etc., arranged in the order
in which they were found on a mummy at Tell-Nebesta.
XXVI th dynasty or later. Presented by the Egypt Ex-
ploration Fund, 1887 [No. 20,577]. Nos. 5-8. Sets of
figures of the children of Horus, with scarabs, etc., for
attaching to mummies. Fine examples [Nos. 26,592,
26,591,24,755,22,805]. No. 9. Four figures of the children
of Horus. Fine work. They were found on the mummy
from which came the scarab No. 3 [No. 26,230]. No. 10.
Porcelain pectoral, glazed green, which was inlaid with red
and yellow paste. The figure represented is the goddess
Nut [No. 37,917]. No. n. Red porcelain (?) pectoral, with
the head of Hathor, and urasi of the South and North, in
relief. Fine work [No. 7844]. Nos. 12, 13. Two porcelain
circular plaques, with serrated edges, stamped with demotic
inscriptions [Nos. 13,429, 29,157]. No. 14. Blue glazed
porcelain hollow-work pendant, with figures of Thoth and
Ra endowing a king with " life " and " power." On the
reverse are figures of Heru-ur and Menthu-Ra presenting
the king, who is in the form of Horus, with scimitars. Very
fine work [No. 14,556]. No. 103. Pendant, with symbols
of "life, stability, power," T"U 1 [No. 18,065]. No. 104.
Inscribed pendant from the amulet of the mendt [No.
13,950].
Nos. 106 ff. A large collection of porcelain utcJiats,
which symbolized the eyes of the sun-god and moon-god,
and were worn with the object of bringing upon the wearer
the " strength," and therefore vigour, of the gods of these
luminaries. Interesting examples are: —
No. 210. Porcelain utchat, inlaid with red paste [No.
23,083]. No. 223. Quadruple utchat, united to two papyrus
sceptres ; the four eyes represent the four cardinal points
\1\ Fi HJRTH l''.N P ri W R0< »M TAB1 I I \-F, K.
[No. 7845]. No. 254. Porcelain cat, with three utchats in
relict' [No. 7381]. No. 264. Green porcelain plaque, with
utchats and emblems of "good luck" Jfl**, i'1 blue
i No. 29,373]. No. 265. Porcelain utchat, provided with the
wings and legs of Horus; in front of the (laws is a uraeus
with disk, and behind it an eye [No. 29,222]. No. 268.
Porcelain utchat, with four utchats and the head of Hathor
in relief I No. 7357]. No; 299. Utchat with the head of B<
in relief [No. 21,547]. No. 329. Porcelain pupil of the eye,
with an utchat on the flat side, and four rows of eyes on
the convex side [No. 30,035]. No. 312. Utchat surmounted
by a figure of a cat [No. 7380]. Nos. 518 543. Group of
eyes for insertion in the faces of mummy coffins ; the pupils
are of black obsidian, and the eye-lids and sockets are of
blue glass [Nos. 691 1, 6912, etc.]. Nos. 544-554. Group of
amulets of the Buckle* in porcelain. Nos. 555-557. Group
of amulets of the Serpent's head in porcelain. Nos. 5 58—
568. Group of amulets of the Heart in porcelain. Nos.
569-574- Group of amulets of the Menat. Nos. 576 582.
Group of amulets of the Tet. Nos. 583, 584. Porcelain
papyrus sceptres surmounted, the one by the head of the
hawk of Horus, and the other by the head of the hawk of
Horus, having on his head the lunar crescent and disk, and
uraeus [Nos. 24,020, 24,021]. Nos. 585-608. Group of papy-
rus sceptres. Nos. 609 614. Group of amulets of the Steps.
This amulet symbolizes : — (1) the throne of Osiris ; (2) the
high place on which the sun rested after he had risen for
the first time ; (3) the steps on which Shu stood when he
raised up the goddess Nut from the embrace of Seb. The
meaning of the amulet is, "exaltation to heaven." Nos.
615, 616. Amulets of the Pillow. Nos. 617, 618. Amulets
of the Plumes. Nos. 619 622. Amulets of the sun on the
horizon. Nos. 639-643. Figures of Ptah-Seker-Asar, the
triune god of the Resurrection, with inscriptions under the
feet M Vrfr^p^' etc- [Nos. 3614--3617]. No. 741. Porce-
lain figure of a captive woman. Presented by J. Tylor,
* For explanations of these, see the description of the amulets in
Table-Case F.
FURNITURE— CHAIRS, TABLE, COUCH, ETC. 225
Esq., 1897 [No. 29,062]. No. 810. Porcelain bud of a
flower, with figures of the winged disk, the ape of Thoth,
a winged uraeus, and a lotus, in hollow-work [Xo. 14,586].
No. 841. Blue paste face for inlaying in a wall [No. 15,987]
No. 855. A group of coloured porcelain lotus flowers, buds,
etc., for inlaying. B.C. 1450. From Tell el-Amarna. Pre-
sented by the Rev. Greville J. Chester, B.A. Nos. 863-8^9.
A group of green glazed and black porcelain plaques and
tiles, which were found inlaid in the wall of the doorway in
the pyramid of King Tcheser (B.C. 3900) at Sakkara [No.
2437 ff.]. No. 873. Circular porcelain plaque for inlaying,
ornamented with the design of a spider's web [No. 6134].
Nos. 892-1374. A large collection of glass beads, figures
and portions of figures for inlaying, sceptres, bangles, pen-
dants, etc. No. 1063 is a fine example of a face for inlaying
in a funeral pectoral, and Nos. 1087- 1092 are good speci-
mens of mille-fiori glass. No. 12 17 is inscribed "Anubis
in the city of embalming " j\ '™ %> J) ft - -°.
STANDARD - CASE L. Furniture, chairs, couch,
table, etc.
1st Shelf, West Side: — No. 1. Wooden stand made in
the form of the upper part of an obelisk. An inscription
on one side of the pyramidion shows that it belonged to a
priestly official in the temple of Amsu or Min at Panopolis
who was called P-senetchem-ab Q ^ ; his father's name
M \ I
was Tches-Amsu, and he held the office of second prophet
of Amsu. Pieces of wood were laid across the bars fixed
to the sides, and offerings of food, etc., were laid upon them.
[No. 20,866.]
Nos. 2, 3. Workmen's wooden stools. From Thebes.
[Nos. 2481, 2482.]
2nd Shelf: — No. 4. Folding stool with legs terminating
in heads of ducks inlaid with ivory. The seat, of which
portions still remain, was made of leather. XVIIIth
dynasty. From Thebes. [No. 2477.]
No. 5. Folding stool with legs made in the form of the
legs of a lion ; the seat was made of leather.
[No. 37,406.]
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226 FOURTH EGYPTIAN ROOM— STANDARD-CASE L
No. 6. Leg "I a stool or chair made in the form of a
man-headed lion, or sphinx. The upper portion is orna-
mented with lotus flower designs, and the lower part is
inscribed ".ill health, all joy of heart, all life and two-fold
power " P^'^^^l'^lTl^'' Late ^'ryu"1
[No. 24,656.]
On the floor of the case arc: —
\o. 7. Framework of a small bed or couch, with legs in
the form of those of bulls. This object is probably unique.
From Thebes. [No. 18,196.]
No. 8. Cushion or pillow stuffed with the feathers of
waterfowl. From Thebes. [No. 1571.]
No. 9. Wooden toilet box which belonged to Thuthu,
the wife of the scribe Ani. When found the cover was tied
on to the box with strands of papyrus and sealed with a
clay seal. The inside is divided into four compartments
by wooden divisions, which are ornamented with red wood
and ebon}'. In these are : —
(i.) Terra-cotta vase containing an unguent of some-
kind for rubbing over the bod)'.
(ii.) Two alabaster vases containing unguents.
(iii.) A piece of pumice stone for rubbing the body.
(iv.) A double stibium tube bound with leather and
provided with two stibium sticks, one wood and the other
ivory. One tube contained the powder which was to be
smeared on the eyes during the inundation, and the other
a medicinal paste or powder to be used in hot weather
when the air was filled with sand and dust.
(v.) An ivory comb, with carved back.
(vi.) A bronze "shell" whereon to mix the unguents.
The hollow is intended for the finger or thumb.
(vii.) A pair of gazelle skin sandals, with turned up
toes ; the outer skin has been tanned of a pink colour.
(viiij Three red cushions for the elbows. A rare and
interesting group of objects. XVIIIth dynasty. From
Thebes. [No. 24,708.]
FURNITURE, TOILET-BOX, ETC.
227
No. 10. Wooden pillar, in the form of a lotus flower,
from a canopy or shrine. [No. 35,763.]
No. 11. Painted wooden stand with bowl.
[No. 2470.]
Toilet Box containing vases of unguents, stibium or eye-paint, a comb, bronze
"shell" on which to mix unguents, cushions, and a pair of sandals
[No. 24,708.]
1st Shelf, East Side:— No. 12. Painted wooden
four-legged stool or chair, which was provided with a
leather seat. The pattern is intended to represent inlaid
ivory buds, etc. The lower part of each leg is concave
Q2
228 FOURTH EGYPTIAN ROOM— STANDARD-CAS] L.
and is ornamented with a linear design in circles. From
Thebes. XX I Ind dynasty. 1X0.2473.]
No. 1 3. Hard wood four-legged stool or chair, with
portions of the leather scat still remaining. The square
holes in which the cross bars are fixed are filled up with
plaques of bone or ivory. The lower part of each leg is
concave, and is carefully carved in circles. XVlIIth
dynasty. From Thebes. | No. 2474.]
No. 14. Four-legged stool or chair, with ebony legs
and cross bars, ornamented and inlaid with ivory ; the
struts are made of ivory. The leather of the seat was
coloured red or pink, and the ivory plaques in the legs
were painted red. The lower part of each leg resembles
that of the legs of Nos. 12 and 13. XVIIIth dynasty.
From Thebes. [No. 2472.]
No. 15. Hard wood folding stool, with leather seat.
The ends of the leg are in the form of ducks' heads, and
are inlaid with ivory and ebony. XlXth dynasty.
[No. 29,284.]
No. 16. Ebony trinket box, inlaid on the top and
sides with rectangular designs of plaques of blue, glazed
porcelain, and ivory stained red ; the edges of the cover
and legs are ornamented with small squares of ivory, and
the buttons round which the fastening was tied are stained
red. A fragment of the fastening is still preserved. XlXth
dynasty or earlier. [No. 5897.]
No. 17. Wooden three-legged table, which formed
part of the furniture of a tomb. Painted on it is a figure
of the goddess " Rennut, the lady of the ka " ^™ D v\
L— J, seated under the branches of a vine laden with
grapes. Before her is a table of offerings, on which we see
a haunch of some animal, bread, cakes, etc. The line of
inscription contains a prayer to Amen-Ra, king of the gods,
and to Osiris, that the)' may provide funeral offerings
for this table. The deceased was called Pa-per-pa (?)
The goddess Rennut was the goddess
of'the harvest. A rare and interesting object. XVIIIth
dynasty. From Thebes. [No. 2469.]
GR.ECO-ROMAN FIGURES, OSTRAKA, ETC. 229
No. 18. Portion of a chest ornamented with figures of
animals, triangles, etc., in relief. [No. 27,391.]
No. 19. Sheet of glass, on which were painted in gold
the figures of the twelve Signs of the Zodiac. Graeco-
Roman period. Presented by the Egypt Exploration Fund,
1885. [No. 29,137.]
TABLE-CASE M. Terra - cotta figures of gods,
Coptic ostraka, etc. In the upper portion of this case is
a large collection of terra-cotta figures of gods, in which
the characteristics @f the gods represented are treated after
the manner of the art of Egypt in the Graeco-Roman
period. Many of them were found among the ruins of
houses and temples, and many in the tombs round about
Alexandria and in the Fayyum ; they appear to have been
made for the purpose of warding off the attacks of fiends
and demons from the living and the dead. Nearly all are
post Christian in date, and some appear to be as late as the
IVth century of our era. The most noteworthy are : —
No. 1. Harpocrates seated on a throne supported on
lions ; the feet of the god rest on a lotus which springs from
the head of a uraeus. No. 2. Cippus, with bust of Minerva
and torches. From the Fayyum. No. 3. Erotes, or
Cupids, holding grapes and thyrsus with wreath. No. 6.
Tablet, with figure of Harpocrates in relief, supported
on the shoulders of two priests, between whom is a lotus
standard. No. 7. Satyr bearing grapes. No. 9. Isis, in the
form of a Greek matron, suckling Horns ; on her head are
her characteristic disk and horns. The supports of her
throne are ornamented with rosettes. No. 1 r. The goddess
Merseker, the lady of the funeral mountain, wearing the
attributes of Isis, and holding in her right hand a uraeus,
which is her emblem. No. 13. The goddess Hathor, or Isis,
as Aphrodite Anadyomene. No. 15. Male figure attended
by a Nubian slave carrying a lantern. No. 17. Figure of
Canopus, the pilot of Menelaus, who was buried at Canopus,
in Egypt, and was worshipped there under the form of a jar
with small feet, a thin neck, and a swollen body. No. 19.
Head of Osiris, wearing the Atef crown. No. 20. Priest
holding up the symbol of the god Canopus. No. 21. Isis,
holding standard. No. 22. Head of Jupiter Serapis. No.
230 i i 'i RT viti \\ roi >M r \i:i.i -C VS1 M.
23. Satyr carrying a l)iill or ox on his shoulders. No. 24.
Satyr carrying a lion on his shoulders] No. 27. Cupid
Cistophoros and Psyche. No. 26, Eros or Cupid with his
torch, accompanied by a cock. No. 29. Minerva, with
shield and torch. No. 34. Painted equestrian figure. No. 35.
Jupiter Serapis and Eagle. No. 36. Eros or Cupid mounted
on a bull. No. 37. Baubo, a woman of Eleusis, and nurse
of Demeter, riding upon a hog. No. 41. Nubian holding a
rattle, and bearing the figure of a god upon li is left shoulder.
No. 43. Portrait figure of a man wearing a chain or collar.
No. 44. Amphora' with wreaths, in stands. No. 45. Head
of a Bacchante. No. 46. Vase, in the form of the body of
Isis, with side projections in the shape of the feathers of
the Atef crown of Osiris ; on the front arc the horns, disk,
and plumes of Isis. No. 47. Harpocrates riding on a goose.
No. 48. Model of a shield, with the head of Dionysos and
a vine wreath in relief. No. 49. Hut surmounted by a
crocodile. No. 51. Canopus, wearing the attributes of
Osiris. No. 52. Can ephoros, with a flute player and a two-
handled amphora. No. 53. Male figure earning a torch.
No. 54. Canephorcs. No. 55. Aphrodite Anadyomene.
No. 56. Silenus, with thyrsus and crater. No. 57.
Harpocrates (?) leaning against an altar inscribed
A dJ| ^^[ip]1- A very rare object. No. 59. Horus
in the dress of a Roman soldier, with shield and spear.
Nos. 60-65. Figures of animals. No. 71. Male figure and
dog. No. 69. Grotesque figure. No. 10 1. Black ware
bottle in the form of a woman clasping a duck. No. 130.
Silenus with panther and cornucopia1. No. 131. The god
Bes. No. 132. Seated ape, reading a papyrus; a parody
on the god I-em-hetep. No. 135. Female figure standing
in a doorway, between pillars in the form of Bes supported
on lions. From Palmyra. No. 165. Conical object,
ornamented with heads and grapes in relief. No. 167.
The god Bes as a warrior. No. 187. Armless, female figure,
wearing boss and chains. Among the remaining objects
are some very good examples of portrait models of heads,
both male and female.
On the sloping side of the case, in divisions I-3» is an
interesting selection of specimens of ostraka and slices of
COPTIC OSTRAKA, ETC. 23 1
calcareous stone, inscribed in Coptic. The texts chosen
for exhibition consist of affidavits, legal acknowledgments
and undertakings, letters, invoices, contracts, writing exer-
cises, extracts from the Scriptures, and from liturgies,
hymns, etc. The period to which most of these belong lies
between A.D. 550 and 900. The following are the most
important : —
No. 1. Affidavit made by three persons that Kyrikos
had acknowledged in their presence the receipt of money
due to him. [No. 32,783.]
No. 2. Circular letter from the Bishop Abraham (?)
to his people, denouncing the injustice of Psate towards
the poor. [No. 42,782.]
Presented by the Egypt Exploration Fund.
No. 3. Liturgical fragment in Coptic ; containing part
of a preface and sanctus from the anaphora of the mass.
[No. 32,799-]
No. 4. Acknowledgment of the gift of a field from
Apa Victor, and engagement to pay the taxes for the
same. Signed by five persons; dated 20th Thoth, 15th
year of an indiction. [No. 32,860.]
No. 5. Undertaking by Abraham, son of David of
Tcheme (Medinet Habu), to look after the camel and its
furniture belonging to Apa Iakob. Witnessed by two
persons, dated 12th Hathor, 5th year of an indiction.
[No. 32,794.]
No. 6. A promise to obey the canons, to learn the
gospel of St. John by heart, etc., by three persons who
have applied to Bishop Abraham to be ordained deacons.
[No. 32,789.]
Presented by the Egypt Exploration Fund.
No. 7. Fragment of a writing exercise in Greek, of a
religious character, written by Elias. [No. 21,091.]
No. 8. Religious exercise ; Coptic and Greek hymns.
[No. 35,123.]
No. 9. Letter from the Bishop Abraham to Pesynthios,
the Lashane (magistrate), rebuking him for injustice.
[No. 32,795-]
No. [O. Undertaking by Papas and Photinos, priests,
to report the proceedings of Apa Victor to the Bishop (?).
[No. 32,785.]
No. 11. Coptic school exercise in Greek words and
names of persons and pla< es. [ No. 26,210.]
No. 12. Writing exercise, of a religious character,
written by the deacon Petros (?). [No. 21,271.]
No. 13. Blacksmith's invoice of iron rings, chains,
collars, etc., which he had supplied. Names wanting.
[No. 2 1, '178.]
No. 14. Bilingual (Coptic and Greek) list or account
of " damaged sacks." [No. 32,867.]
No. 15. Coptic abecedarium and copybook. Vllth
century. [No. 26,739.]
No. 16. Letter from the "most humble" Pesenthios to
his " father" Moyses. [No. 21,138.]
No. 17. Beginning of an extract from Psalm xcviii,,
" Sing unto the Lord a new song, etc." [No. 14,070.]
No. [8. Part of a letter to an unknown person.
[No. 21,087.]
No. 19. Part of the Alexandrine canon of the mass
written in corrupt Greek by Apa Eihannes.
[No. 5880.]
No. 20. Fragment containing part of a Greek hymn
and a letter in Coptic, conveying the salutations of
Dioskoros to his brother Ounaref, his mother Tnouba, etc.
[No. 5881.]
No. 21. List of measures of corn (?) sent (?) to various
persons, whose names are enumerated. [No. 20,025.]
No. 22. Part of a hymn or psalm (?). [No. 14,248.]
No. 23. Letter from Souloum6n Mengera to Apai
Karakos, referring to gravestones. [ No. 21,235.]
No. 24. List of houses belonging to various persons.
[No. 21,430.].
No. 25. Part of a letter to Pesynthios, mentioning
Samuel. [No. 20,012.]
COPTIC OSTRAKA, ETC. 233
Xo. 26. Letter from the priest Victor, and Matthaios,
to Germanos and Isak (Isaac), authorizing them to sow
their share of a field, and specifying the rent. Dated in the
4th year of an indiction. • [No. 32,840.]
No. 27. Letter from the monk Peperporos to a monk
Enoch, replying to a former letter, and referring to the
matter of Epiphanios. [No. 14,210.]
No. 28. Document referring to the sale of a camel.
Dated 2nd Pashans ; witnessed by three persons : — Dioskle
and Ouanafre of Pallas, and Gergorios of Remmosh.
[No. 14,080.]
No. 29. Letter dated the 28th Paophi, in the 12th year
of an indiction, referring to Apa Philotheos having been
sent to the writer, and to a payment of \"j\ ardebs (of
corn ?) having been made to a camel-driver, etc.
[No. I4J34-]
No. 30. Coptic prayer ; at end is a fragmentary list of
Coptic and Roman months. [No. 5892.]
No. 31. Letter from Epiphanios to the "lord" Pater-
moute, referring to wood, a camel, etc., sent by the latter,
and praying that the Lord may bless him and deliver him
from the devices of man, and from the snares of the enemy.
[No. 14,040.]
No. 32. Fragment of a letter of religious character,
incised. [No. 35,136.]
No. S3- Fragment of a religious text written by
Shenoute or Papnoute. [No. 5870.]
No. 34. List of proper names ; probably of workmen.
[No. 20,093.]
No. 35. Letter from Zebede to his brother Iohannes,
referring to clothes to be brought by Kalinekos.
[No. 16,783.]
No. 36. Letter of Shenoute, son of Pidb, in the
Khastron (sic) of Shlout(?), M6yses, son of Severus and
Pahom, son of Dionysios, dwelling in the nome of Ermont,
to Shenoute, son of the priest Pham in Ermont, agreeing
to pay his "wages for having taken charge of the field of
Kharitou, without any neglect. [No. 21,293.]
234 FOURTH EGYPTIAN ROOM — TABLE-* \-l M.
No. 37. Part of a letter, in an ornate hand, written to
.1 monk, to ask for advice. | No. 21.016.]
No. 38. School exercise, consisting of scriptural
passages, chiefly relating to Sion. [No. 14,030.]
No. 39. Fragment of a letter from Maria the nun to
[sak (Isaac), "her beloved brother." [No. 21,268.]
N0.40. Tart of a contract or agreement. [No. 31,661.]
No. 41. Part of a letter requesting some monks to
bless the writers, and to send holy water to them that they
may sprinkle their sick beasts with it. [No. 21,259.]
No. 42. Safe-conduct issued by Souai, the Lashanc
(magistrate}, to Mena. Written by Niharau the deacon.
[No. 32,995-]
No. 43. Agreement, drawn up in legal form, between
David (?) and Antonios the monk, with regard to articles
delivered by the writer in exchange. | No. 36,294.]
Presented by A. H. Gardiner, Esq., 1902.
No. 44. Letter from Isak (Isaac) the monk, enquiring
after his " beloved father "' Paam. [No. 5865.]
No. 45. Exercise in writing begging letters by a monk.
[No. 32,847.]
NO. 46. Letter from Papnoute to A pa Victor the
Presbyter, with regard to his property. [No. 20,004.]
No. 47. Part of a letter concerning money, and
mentioning a satccrc (stater) of silver. [No. 18,869.]
No. 48. Authorization from Abraham and Victor to
Victor Kyriakos, and to Victor, son of (ieorgios, with
regard to a financial matter. | No. 31,943.]
No. 49. An account of measures of corn, straw, and
sesame belonging to (?) Theudora ? . [No. 14,025.]
No. 50. Account of grain. (No. 21,185.]
No. 51. List of payments or distributions of measures
of beans, barley, corn and nuts, to various persons, chiefly
church officials. [No. 20,040.]
No. 52. Receipt for seed-corn " for the work of the
ploughs." No. 21,172.]
COPTIC OSTRAKA, ETC. 235
No. 53. List of measurements of land, in which Greek
arithmetical signs, etc., are employed. [No. 29,750.]
No. 54. Letter from Anatolios and Isak (Isaac) to
the holy father Zacharias, mentioning Paam, Victor, and
Apa Marouf. VHIth century. [No. 14,078.]
No. 55. Acknowledgment of a debt of one holokotinos
(solidus) due to Phoibamon the camel-driver, for his pay.
Signed by David the monk. [No. 21,378.]
No. 56. Authorization from Pako in respect of rent.
[No. 19,879-]
No. 57. Receipt for a holokotinos (solidus) paid as tax
or rent by Zael for the "camels' field," for the ninth year.
Dated 1st Mekheir, 9th year of an indiction. Signed by
Iohannes the monk. VI I Ith century A.D.
[No. 21,150]
No. 58. Receipt for one holokotinos (solidus) paid by
Kosmas as an instalment of the yearly tax. Signed by
David and Pisrael. VII Ith century. [No. 20,074.]
No. 59. Acknowledgment by Phoibamon of a debt
owing to Apa David, a monk. [No. 20,039.]
No. 60. School exercise in Greek and Coptic grammar ;
on the obverse is a portion of a letter addressed to the
authorities of a monastery. [No. 14,222.]
No. 61. Reading exercise. [No. 31,387.]
No. 62. Fragment of a school exercise, with rough
drawings of animals. [No. 21,291.]
No. 63. Writing exercise in the form of a letter, and
roughly drawn faces, etc. [No. 32,804.]
No. 65. Acquittance of Mizael Konstantinos for one
holokotinos paid as the first instalment of taxes for the
year. Signed by Severus. VI I Ith century.
[No. 18,722.]
No. 66. Writing exercise, for the formation of letters.
[No. 18,816.]
No. 67. Fragment of a letter. [No. 19,379.]
No. 68. Inscribed fragment with portion of a rough
drawing of a bird. [No. 21,052.]
236 FOURTH EGYPTIAN ROOM TABLE-CASE M.
No. 69. Fragment of a roughly painted patera with
inscription of rheodora (?). | No. 26,532.]
In Division 4 arc interesting groups of Coptic crosses,
bone pendants, bronze rings, bangles, etc., presented by
the late Rev. Greville J. Chester, [886. The greater
number of them were found at Akhmim, in Upper Egypt,
a town which stands close to the site of the ancient city
of Apu, called by the Greeks Panopolis. As early as the
end of the third century of our era there existed a con-
siderable number of Egyptians who had embraced
Christianity, and were commonly known as Copts, and
during the fourth, fifth, and sixth centuries large monas-
teries and institutions of a somewhat similar character
were established in and about the city. The wealth of
Panopolis was derived chiefly from linen working and stone
cutting, and the rich folk of the city were buried in
elaborately embroidered shrouds and winding sheets ; it
is from the graves of such that the objects in this division
have been collected. The most noteworthy are : —
No. 75- Bone cross. No. 76. Bronze cross, inlaid with
red paste. No. 78. Iron hair-pin, with the figure of a cock
at one end. Nos. 81, 82. Iron bangles, with rectangular
inlaid plaques. No. 84. Fine bronze cross, with inlaid
silver boss. No. 85. Wooden dagger, with handle in the
form of a Coptic cross. No. 88. Bone pendant, with a
figure of a Coptic saint in relief. Nos. 89-104. Group of
crosses in metal, glass, bone, mother-of-pearl, etc. No. 105.
Tweezers and other implements, on a ring. Arabic period ?
Nos. 106-111. Metal bangles. Nos. 11 2-1 15. Metal ear-
rings, with pendants made of glass, etc. Nos. 1 16-126.
Group of crosses. No. 127. Mother-of-pearl dove.
No. 128. Mother-of-pearl object, of unknown use. No. 131.
Bronze chain. Nos. [32 [38. Bronze bells, for attaching
to garments. No. 150. Bronze hair pins, with round heads.
No. 151. Bone plaque ; compare No. 88. No. 152. Mother-
of-pearl object, use unknown. No. [53. Bronze ornament
from a staff used in religious processions, with model of
the seven-branched candlestick which stood in the Jewish
Tabernacle. No. 157. Large bronze Coptic cross, with
traces of linear ornamentation. No. 174. Bone amulet
GR^ECO-ROMAN AND COPTIC ANTIQUITIES. 237
on one side is cut the figures of two serpents, which stand
one on each side of a fire altar, and on the other is an
inscription in three lines, which shows that one of them was
called Khnoumis. BPINTANTHNCWPINXNOYMIC.
A rare object.
In Division 5 is a large collection of terra-cotta
moulds which were used for making amulets, figures of
gods, etc., in porcelain and metal, and stamps for bread
and cakes made for high days and holidays. Among the
latter may be noted Nos. 183, 184, 189, 194, 195, and
among the former: — No. 179. Figure of Bes. No. 196.
Figure of the Bennu bird, which is commonly identified
with the phoenix. No. 197. Lotus flower. No. 199. A
crown made of plumes, horns, and a disk. No. 200. Por-
tion of a mendt, with aegis of Bast, utchat, uraei, etc.
No. 201. The god Anubis wearing the triple crown.
No. 202. The god Nefer-Temu. No. 209. Mould for bead
or similar object, inscribed, " Son of the Sun, Ptah-meri "
"t° f ° l H ^^sl ^ ] . No. 217. Mould for pendent lion.
In Division 6 are the following : —
No. 262. Bronze seal in the form of a cartouche, with
plumes, inscribed ^T^r ~ • No. 263. Similar seal
inscribed "Un-nefer" ^^1- No. 264. Similar seal in-
/vwwx <^\ , - .
scribed with the name of Heru-sma-taui w
*—. ■ ■ * /WWW
f^. No. 26;. Similar seal inscribed with a figure and
the name of Harpocrates. No. 266. Similar seal inscribed
with the Egyptian equivalent of " Agathodaimon" IX. T ^7.
No. 268. Rectangular bronze seal inscribed with emblem
of " millions of years," winged disk, palm branches, etc.
LKJ . No. 269. Bronze seal, inscribed Ra-ka-ankh O LJ nr .
i.e., Ankh-ka-Ra. No. 270. Portion of a bronze seal ring,
inscribed with the figure of a crocodile. No. 271. Bronze
238 FOURTH EGYPTIAN ROOM -TABLE-CASE V
stamp, in the form of a hand and wrist, inscribed (]'
Mo. •; '. Bronze seal inscribed (I ^fc^w No. 275-
Bronze stamp with a ram's head, inscribed "house of
\,1R'n [I • No. 276. 6ronze stamp inscribed
with a triangular design. No. 277. Bronze wire stamp
inscribed with the name of Amen-Ra (1 . No. 280.
Stone stamp inscribed " Divine Father, Osiris Un-nefer,
Maat-Kheru" (]^l$ils»T . No. 283. Bronze stamp
inscribed with the name of Cnaeus Pompeius Felix,
CNPOMPFELICIS- No. 284. Bronze potter's stamp in
the shape of a foot, with indistinct symbols. Presented by
the Trustees of the Christy Collection, 1865. No. 285.
Circular bronze stamp inscribed with Maltese crosses and
five letters. No. 286. Bronze stamp inscribed " One God "
€IC 0EOC. No. 287. Bronze stamp in the form of a
N
cross inscribed Tl ^A. No. 291. Green schist mould for
<
an Arabic coin. No. 292. Pair of silver bangles, much
oxidized. No. 293. Silver wire bangle, each end of which
terminates in a uraeus wearing a disk. No. 294. Silver
wire bangle, each end of which terminates in the flat head
of a serpent. Nos. 295, 296. Pair of tortoiseshell bangles,
period uncertain. No. 310. Blue glazed porcelain bead, of
veryunusual design. No. 311. Thick glass bead. No. 314.
Bronze plaque, Pegasus in relief. No. 315. Moulds of
coins of Constantine and Licinius, A.D. 306-324. Presented
by the late Walter Myers, Esq., 1884. Nos. 318-335.
Bronze and stone weights, of the Roman and Christian
periods.
TABLE - CASE N. Gnostic amulets and gems.
" Gnostic " is a word used to describe a large number of
religious sects, of widely differing views and beliefs, which
sprang up in the Eastern provinces of the Roman Empire
in the first and second centuries of our era. Many of the
founders of Gnostic sects based their systems upon beliefs
GNOSTIC AMULETS. 239
which were at that time of considerable antiquity, and
several of the views held by the Egyptian gnostics were
undoubtedly derived from the ancient Egyptian religion,
which is made known to us by inscriptions on coffins,
papyri, etc. The founders and teachers of Gnosticism,
a word which is derived from the Greek Gnosis, " know-
ledge," claimed to possess a superiority of knowledge in
respect of the science of things divine and celestial, and
they regarded the knowledge of God as true perfection.
The Gnostics of Egypt adopted into their system the old
gods Ptah, Amen, Ra, Thoth, Suchos (Sebek), Aah, the
Moon-god, Osiris, Heru-ur, Anubis, Baba, etc., and the
goddesses Neith, Hathor, Isis, Sati, the " Children of
Horus," etc. The characteristic god of Gnosticism is
" Abraxas," or " Abrasax," and he was intended to
represent the One who embraced All within himself;
he represents by his many forms the union of many
different ideas and attributes in one figure. His head is
that of a cock, his body that of a man, and his legs are
serpents ; in his right hand he holds a whip, and on his
left arm is a shield. The Gnostics of Egypt, like the
dynastic Egyptians, attributed magical properties to
haematite, carnelian, and other stones, which when cut into
certain forms, and inscribed with figures of Abraxas and
magical symbols and legends, were worn by them as a
protection against moral and physical evil. The legends
on the stones here exhibited are chiefly the names of
Abraxas and his forms, the names of the Five Emanations
of God, the names of the Archangels, etc. Many stones
are inscribed with the seven vowels, arranged in magical
combination and order. The following gems and amulets
are noteworthy : —
No. 1. Triangular green stone, with figures of frog-
headed and a hawk-headed deities, winged uraeus, with
pendent " life." The inscription mentions Bait, Hathor,
Akori, and concludes " Hail, Father of the world ! Hail,
God in Three Forms"! XAIPEriATEPKOCMOYXAI-
PETPIMOP4>€0€OC.
No. 8. Stone inscribed with a figure of the god
Abraxas holding a palm branch in each hand ; near him
are two gazelles and two scorpions.
! I HkTlf K<;\ PTIAN RO< >M TABLE-CAS1 \.
\o. ii. Abraxas, winged, wearing triple 'town, and
standing upon a lion. The inscription contains the prayer,
" Protect from all evil."
No. 12. Stone inscribed with a figure of Bes or
Abraxas with the attributes of the One God Who com-
prehendeth all things, standing upon an oval formed by a
serpent. The inscription is an address to the deity I Ail.
No. 17. The seven-rayed, man-headed serpent Khol-
khnoubis XOLXNOYBIC, who is described as the
" everlasting sun," CEM€C€IAAM.
No. 18. The lion-headed serpent Khnoumis and the
mystic symbol SSS-
No. 22. The lion-headed serpent with halo, who is
described as " Khnoubis, the driver away of demons."
No. 23. Chrysoprase inscribed with a figure of
Khnoubis (or, " Khnoumis, the destroyer of demons").
No. 25. Bloodstone inscribed with figures of a group
of winged beings who stand on a planisphere ; two of
them support a crowned mummied figure (Osiris or
Christ ?). On the reverse is a figure of the same deity,
with eight stars. On the obverse, below the Gnostic
inscription, is inscribed fl A, and on the reverse fl Q, the
meaning of which seems to be, " Jah (or Jehovah) is Alpha,
Jah (or Jehovah) is Omega."
No. 28. Bloodstone inscribed with a figure of a six-
handed triad of goddesses (Isis, Nephthys, and Neith?),
and six stars.
No. 33. Haematite plaque inscribed with figures of
Khnoumis, and an ass-headed deity performing a ceremony
at a mystic standard, and the vowels of the Greek alphabet
arranged in a magic triangle —
A
€€
HHH
I I I I
OOOOO
YYYYYY
GNOSTIC AMULETS. 24 1
No. 34. Green jasper oval inscribed with a figure of
Jupiter Serapis seated upon a throne, with sides made in
the form of winged lions, enclosed within a ring formed
by a serpent.
No. 36. Crystal oval inscribed with the figure of
Abraxas, in the form of a cock-headed lion, standing on
a prostrate foe.
No. 37. Haematite oval inscribed with a figure ol
Abraxas mounted on a horse ; on the reverse is
" Sabaoth," a name of the One God.
No. 44. Yellow jasper oval inscribed with figures of
Abraxas ; on the obverse he is lion-headed, and holds a
human head in his right hand, and on the reverse he is
standing in a chariot which is drawn by serpents.
No. 45. Sard inscribed with a six-armed polytheistic
figure and the ram-headed god I A.
No. 46. Haematite plaque inscribed with the figure of
a man reaping ; on the reverse is the legend CXII2N,
i.e., " the reaper."
No. 49. Jasper plaque inscribed with a figure of
Abraxas, cock-headed, and with serpents for legs ; on
the reverse is the name of the Archangel Michael.
No. 50. Haematite bezel in a ring inscribed with a
figure of Abraxas, who holds a shield whereon is a
magical arrangement of Greek vowels.
No. 60. Agate plaque inscribed with a figure of
Abraxas holding a shield, on which is inscribed IAI2 ;
on the reverse is a figure of Osiris in mummied form,
and the legend ABAANA0AN, which is said to mean,
" Thou art our father."
No. 62. Chrysoprase oval inscribed with a figure of
Abraxas Opheon ; on the reverse is ZACA.
No. 63. Green jasper oval inscribed with figures of
Abraxas and Harpocrates seated on a lotus flower.
No. 69. Sard inscribed with a figure of Harpocrates,
seated upon a lotus flower, a lizard, and a Gnostic
inscription enclosed within a ring formed by a serpent.
No. 79. Haematite plaque inscribed with a figure of
Harpocrates, who is seated on the head of Bes, who
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242 KOURTH EGYPTIAN ROOM— TABLl CAS1 V
stands on a scorpion ; o*n each side is a seated deity. The
whole scene is enclosed within a serpent ring, outside
which is a Gnostic inscription.
No. 87. Haematite plaque inscribed with a figure of a
knight (St. George?; spearing a foe. The legends read:
"Solomon," the :' seal of God."
No. 00. Beryl bezel of a ring inscribed with the figure
of a beetle, having two hands and arms and a human
head, from which proceed rays of light, and with the
figure of a scorpion.
No. 1 10. Agate oval plaque inscribed with three
magical signs enclosed within a serpent ring, and the
names of six Archangels, viz., Gabriel, Paniel, Ragauel,
Thureiel, Souricl, and Michael, and I Ail.
No. 123. Yellow jasper plaque inscribed with the
figure of a crab holding the crescent moon in one claw ;
on the reverse is the legend, " Romula has given birth to
Sosipatria," PHMOYAAErENNHCENCnCinATPI A.
No. 147, Bloodstone oval plaque inscribed with figures
of the chariots of the Sun and Moon, and with the names
Iao, Sabaoth, etc.
No. 191. Haematite plaque inscribed with a figure
of a four-winged trinity, who probably represent the
Gnostic form of Sekhet-Bast-Ra, who are figured in the
vignette of Chapter CLXIV. of the Sai'te Recension of the
Book of the Dead.
No. 201. Chalcedony plaque inscribed with the names
of Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Iao, etc.
No. 231. Jasper oval for inlaying in a ring, inscribed
with the scene of the Crucifixion ; the figures below
probably represent the Virgin Mary and Saint John.
On the reverse is a Gnostic inscription.
No. 235. Green jasper oval plaque inscribed with a
figure of Abraxas, holding a shield on which is inscribed
lAft.
No. 251. Obsidian plaque inscribed with a figure of a
six-armed trinity ; on one side is Harpocrates, and on the
other Khnoumis. On the reverse are seven stars enclosed
within a serpent ring.
GNOSTIC AMULETS, 243
No. 252. Haematite plaque inscribed with figures of
Khnoumis, Iao, Sabaoth, Harpocrates, Abraxas, and a ser-
pent deity with a star.
No. 323. Bronze pendant, with scene representing a
god or knight spearing a prostrate foe. The legend reads,
" Thou art the god who vanquishest evil." The being on
horseback may be intended for Horus or Saint Michael.
No. 324. Bronze amulet in the form of a pendant,
inscribed with Gnostic formulae.
No. 398. Green stone oval inscribed with an ithyphallic,
four-armed, four-winged deity, whose head is surmounted
by a crown, and who has about it eight rams' heads. In
two hands he holds the symbols of the lightning and the
thunderbolt, in one he holds a pair of scales, and in another
he holds a hatchet, or club. He represents the " God Who
comprehendeth All," and stands within a serpent ring.
No. 441. Circular agate inscribed with a seven-legged
face, seven ears of corn, and fourteen stars.
No. 455. Green stone oval plaque inscribed with the
figure of a beetle enclosed within a serpent ring, and a
Gnostic inscription.
No. 469. Amulet inscribed with a scene representing a
woman, who is seated under a tree, and holds in one hand
the symbol of life, ■¥", giving birth to a child ; on the reverse
is the symbol of " life," and the legend, "One God in heaven."
The scene inscribed on the amulet is the Birth of Christ.
Presented by H. Rider Haggard, Esq., 1887.
WALL-CASES 137-142, 194-204. Stone and ala-
baster vases. In these cases is displayed a fine represen-
tative collection of funeral vases, of all periods, in diorite,
granite, porphyry, jasper, breccia of various kinds, and in
several sorts of "limestone" and delicate alabaster. There
is little doubt the predynastic Egyptians, although they
appear to have possessed no metal tools, were able to
produce stone vases of rude form and poor work, but it is
not until the Dynastic period that the largest, finest, and
prettiest stone vases appear in the graves of the Egyptians.
The custom of depositing stone vases filled with offerings
of all kinds was common in Egypt in every period, and it
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is certain that it originated among people whose object was
not to offer vases and vessels, but offerings whereon those
who were buried were supposed to live, after they had
entered upon their new life, until such time as they were
able to provide for themselves in the world beyond the
grave. The dynastic Egyptians adopted the custom, and,
having metal tools at their command, they succeeded in
producing vases of most delicate and beautiful forms out of
very hard stones, such as diorite and haematite ; a true
idea of the variety of forms and of the excellence of the
workmanship can only be obtained by inspecting a number
of the best examples, and this the reader can best do by
examining the unrivalled treasures of this kind in the
National Collection. (Plate VI.) The following are the
most typical and interesting : —
Wall-Cases 194-197. Nos. 1-20. A group of long
narrow vases in hard, black stone, with lugs ; some have
wavy line decorations on their upper parts, and some have
feet. From 'Amrah, near Abydos.
[Nos. 29,926, 32,515, etc.]
Nos. 21, 22. Hard stone vases, with rims.
[Nos. 29,571, 30.366.]
No. 23. Hard stone bottle, with lugs and rounded
neck. [ No. 30,369.]
No. 24. Flat, hard stone bottle, with flat rim, handle
and spout. [No. 30,741.]
Nos. 25-28. Four hard stone vases and jugs, with
handles ; one jug has a flat cover. | Nos. 36,404, etc.]
Nos. 29-34. Six black stone unguent vases, with flat
projecting rims. [No. 21,990.]
No. 35. Green schist bowl in the form of a duck.
[No. 32,177.]
No. 36. Hard, red stone, flat mortar, with four rect-
angular projections ; the muller, or grinder, is of unusual
shape. I No. 29,301.]
No. 2>7- Black stone bowl, ornamented with heads of
Hathor, the cow of Hathor, papyrus sceptre and plants,
gazelle and young, human figure, etc., in relief. Early
work. [No. 32,554.]
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^8. Variegated stone bowl in-
No.
scribed with the cartouches Mut-kha-
neferu and Amen-ar-tas. XXVIth dy-
nasty. [No. 4701.]
Nos. 39-42. Hard red stone stibium pot,
and three bluish-grey stone stibium vases ;
one of these [No. 20,759] nas handles in
the form of apes, and another has handles in the form of
serpents [No. 12,753]. F°r a larger vase, in the same kind
of stone, see No. 47.
Nos. 43-46. A group of mottled black and white stone
unguent vases, made of semi-transparent stone.
[Nos. 4707, etc.]
No. 48. Variegated elongated stone vase, with pierced
lugs, and a gold rim and cover. A rare object. Fine
work. [No. 32,152.]
No. 49. Hard red stone vase, with lugs and rim plated
with gold. [No. 30,370.]
No. 50. Red stone cover of a vase sculptured with
figures of a lion and a bull in mortal combat. The work-
manship of this object is unusually fine and realistic.
Period uncertain. From the neighbourhood of Abydos.
[No. 22,866.]
In Wall-Cases 196 and 197 is a fine collection of bowls,
vases, jars, etc., in red breccia or " plum-pudding stone";
one of these (No. 35,306) is in the form of a pigeon. The
two large, two-handled red breccia bowls, with fiat project-
ing lips, exhibited on the floor of these cases, are extremely
fine specimens of their class. They belong to a series
which comprised Nos. 35,698, 35,700, 36,330 (see Wall-Cases
Nos. 10-12 on the Landing of the North-West Staircase),
and which was found in one of the royal tombs of the
Archaic period at Abydos.
On the floor of Wall-Cases 194 and 195 are examples
of large mottled and variegated vases and bowls in hard
stone, and a fine specimen of a black, grey, and green
mottled table for offerings. [No. 22,832.]
No. 51. Large grey granite funeral vase inscribed with
the cartouche of Usr-en-Ra \\^ f J^s i P <=>] •?■ ^ ,
king of Egypt, B.C. 3300. [No. 32,620.]
\|<. I ol Kill EGYPTIAN ROOM WALL-CASES 137 1.4 J.
In Wall-Cases 137 142 and 198204 is arranged a lai
collection oi fine examples ol alabaster bowls, funeral vases,
and vessels of all kinds and of all periods between B.C. 3300
and a.m. [08. A large number of them arc noteworthy as
much for the delicacy and gracefulness of their forms as
for the beaut} of the zoned alabaster of which they are
made An examination of their shapes will show that, for
the most part, they are modifications, caused by the exi-
gencies of the material of which the vessels arc made, ol
the forms which were in use in the late Predynastic and
Archaic periods. The most noteworthy are: —
Nos. 52- 53- A pair of large sepulchral limestone stands
which stood one at each end of the bier, and in the hollow
upper parts of which incense was burnt. They were made
for a priest and "royal libationer" of King Khufu (Cheops),
king of Egypt, B.C. 3733, called Ka-tep. The inscription
on No. 52 reads^^K_.^]C]|^^u|-
[Xos. 27,339, 27,340.]
ALABASTER VASES INSCRIBED WITH ROYAL NAMES.
247
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men-
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[No. 29,479.]
No. 54. Massive funeral vase inscribed with the car-
touches and titles of Neb-Maat-Ra ( c
hetep III.). From Thebes.
No. 55. Alabaster table, with a complete set of vessels
made to hold oils and salves for the high priestly official
Atena, who held the rank of smer udt, and performed the
duties of "chief reader" to the god Osiris at Abydos.
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Alabaster head rest of Atena.
[No. 2523.]
Alabaster Table, with vessels inscribed
with the name offAtena. [Nos. 4684, etc.]
the table stands the alabaster pillow or head-rest of Atena.
The name and titles of the deceased, which are found
inscribed on each object, were inlaid in green colour.
Vlth dynasty (?). About B.C. 3200. [Nos. 46841?., and
2523-] Close by is a green stone bowl also inscribed with
Atena's name and titles. [No. 4697.]
No. 56. Fragment of an alabaster vase inscribed with
the name of Khafra (Khephren), king of Egypt, about
B.C. 3666. [No. 16,453.]
No. 57. Fine alabaster vase inscribed with the name
and titles of Unas r^®^()Pj. [No. 4603.]
248 FOURTH EGYPTIAN ROOM WALL-CASE [38.
No. 58. Alabaster vase inscribed with the Horns name
ol"Sahu-Rax37QV\ Neb-kha-u, king of Egypt, B.C.
3533- [No. 29,330.]
No. 59. Alabaster jar inscribed with the name and
titles (,f Teta f§>°^l|> king of Egypt, about B.C. 3266.
I No. 20,204.]
No. 60. Fragment of an alabaster vase inscribed with
the name and titles of Teta, B.C. 3266. [ No. 22.961.]
Red breccia Bull. Archaic period. (The inscription is modern.)
[ No. 29,21 1.]
No. 61. Red breccia bull inscribed with the name
and titles of Teta, king of Egypt, B.C. 3266. The object
itself is very much older than the reign of Teta, and dates
from the Archaic period ; the inscription was added to it a
few years ago by a native of Egypt, who hoped by so
doing to increase its market value. [No. 29,211.]
No. 62. Alabaster vase inscribed with the name and
titles of Ra-meri Pepi (I.), (^jT| ^ [SWj - k'mS of
Egypt, B.C. 3233 ; the inscription is painted green.
(Plate VII.) [No. 22,559.]
Plate VII.
ALABASTER VASES INSCRIBED WITH ROYAL NAMES. 249
No. 63. Alabaster vase inscribed with the Horus name
and name of Ra-meri, Pepi (I.), the hieroglyphics being
inlaid in blue. [No. 38,074.]
No. 64. Alabaster vase inscribed with the names and
titles of Mer-en-Ra, king of Egypt, B.C. 3200.
[No. 4493.]
No. 65. Fine large alabaster vase inscribed with the
names and titles of Nefer-ka-Ra, Pepi (II.) (oJUj
( nlQ ]; the polishing of the vase is modern. [No. 22.817.]
No. 66. Alabaster vase inscribed with the names and
titles of Pepi II. [No. 4492.]
No. 67. Fragment of a chalcedony vase inscribed with
the prenomen of Usertsen I. fof§U]L king of Egypt,
B.C. 2433. _ [No. 24,118.]
No. 68. Fragment of a crystalline stone vase inscribed
with the name and titles of king Apep f \ ° J ; period
doubtful. [No. 32,069.]
No. 69. Fragment of an alabaster vase inscribed with
Neb-peh-Ra, the prenomen of Aahmes I. ( v^- f) 1,
king of Egypt, B.C. 1700. [No. 32,068.]
No. 70. Alabaster vase inscribed, in hieroglyphics filled
with green paint, with the name of Maat-ka-Ra (Hat-
shepset) f o^U], queen of Egypt, B.C. 1550. The name
of the temple of Der al-Bahari, W^\=*^ cr~3, is also men-
tioned on it. From Der al-Bahari. [No. 26,282.]
Nos. 71-75. A group of four vases, and one cover of a
vase, inscribed with the prenomen of Amen-hetep II.
( <JiL % I J , king of Egypt, B.C. 1450.
[Nos. 4672, 32,533-32,536.]
No. 76. Stone vase inscribed with the names and titles
of Amen-hetep III. and Queen Thi, about B.C. 1450,
inlaid in glazed porcelain. [No. 32,553.]
No, 77. Alabaster pebble inscribed with the name and
!50 FOURTH EGYPTIAN ROOM — WALL-CASES [39 ff.
titles of Thothmes III. foe^}$u, king of Egypt, B.C.
1500. [No. [8,194.]
No. 7<s. Fragment of an alabaster vase inscribed with
the names and titles of Rameses III., king of Egypt,
about B.C. 1200. From Tell-al-Yahudtyya.
[No. 32,071.]
No. 79. Fragment of an alabaster vase inscribed with
the names and titles of Rameses IV., king of Egypt,
about B.C. 1 166. [ No. 2880.]
No. 80. Vase inscribed with the name of Ptah-mes, a
sem priest and high priest of Memphis. About B.C. 1200.
[No. 4640.]
No. 81. Zoned alabaster vase inscribed with the name
of Nub-em-tekh, f5"^.
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jfj . a Pn
ncess. The hiero-
glyphics were originally inlaid in blue colour. [No. 4536.]
No. 82. Fine zoned alabaster vase, with cover, in-
scribed with the amount of its fluid capacity, I^O 111,
/ww^ nil 1 1 1
" eight hen and 6 parts of a hen. " When tested it was
found that this vessel would hold 8i pints (apothecaries'
fluid measure). [No. 4659.]
No. 83. Two-handled alabaster jar ornamented with a
floral design. The ends of the handles are in the forms of
heads of ducks. Presented by Lord Carlisle, 1887.
[No. 26,242.]
No. 84. Large alabaster vessel inscribed with the
names of Amenartas and Kashta, about B.C. 733.
[No. 24,709.]
No. 85. Alabaster jar inscribed with the prenomen
and titles of Shabaka, ( O I U ] , king of Egypt, B.C. 700.
[No. 35,080.]
ALABASTER JUGS, UNGUENT POTS, ETC. 25 1
Xo. 86. Alabastron inscribed with the prenomen of
Necho II. ( © J |^ O J , king of Egypt, about B.C. 633.
[X0.4631.]
No. 87. Alabaster jug in the form of a woman, with
one handle. [No. 30,459.]
No. 88. Alabaster jug in the form of a kneeling man,
with one handle. [No. 29,907.]
No. 89. Alabaster vase ornamented with the head of a
female in relief. [No. 4535.]
No. 90. Alabaster mortar (?), with four grotesque
heads. Late period. [No. 26,640.]
Nos. 91-93. Three alabaster vases containing liquid
unguent, which was used for anointing the body.
[Nos. 4501, 21,981, 24,418.]
WALL-CASES 143, 144. On the upper and lower
groups of shelves are painted wooden and earthenware
models of sepulchral vases in gold, variegated glass and
rare stones, belonging to the period between B.C. 1700 and
1000. Among these maybe noted as typical examples : —
Nos. 1, 2. Vases of Nebseni, priest of An-her |\^|(=i,
[Nos. 30.454, 30,455.]
No. 3. Gilded vase lor mestemet f| I , a kind of
eye-paint; made for Rameses II. [No. 35,274.]
No. 4. Gilded vase for uatchu | o v\ 1 , a kind of eye-
paint ; made for Rameses II. [No. 35,273.]
Nos. 5, 6. Round and conical gilded vases of
Rameses II. [Nos. 35,275, 35,272.]
No. 7. For purposes of comparison is here exhibited a
fine variegated glass vase from the tomb of Amen-hetep II.,
B.C. 1560. [No. 36,343.]
On the floor of Wall-Cases 143 and 144 are three
terra-cotta vases, which were found in a tomb of the Xlth
or Xllth dynasty at Al-Barsha in Upper Egypt in 1903.
The mouth of the largest vase has a linen cover, and was
252 FOURTH EGYPTIAN ROOM WALL-CASES 145 149.
originally tied with a cord and sealed; the fragments of
the cord are exhibited in a box by the side of the vase.
Presented by F. G. Hilton Price, Esq., F.S.A., 1003.
[Nos. 38,007-38,009.]
WALL-CASES 145 149 contain a representative
collection of pottery, dating from the IVth dynast)-, B.< .
3700. to the XXth dynasty, B.C. 1000. On the top shi
art' examples of vases, etc., which were painted after
baking, also specimens of polished red ware of various
periods. On the lower group of shelves of Cases 145 and
146 are series of vases, probably of foreign origin, including
[No. 32,240.] [No. 4740-] [No. 32,598.] [No. 36,343.] [No. 4886.]
A group of Vessels to illustrate the use of variegated stone, painted
wood, and coloured glass for sepulchral vessels.
black polished ware, lekythi {i.e., bottles), and blackwarr
vases, ornamented with incised designs filled with lime,
dating from the XHIth dynasty, B.C. 2000, to the XlXth
dynasty, B.C. 1 300. Of special interest are : —
No. 8. Black ware bottle in the form of a hawk.
[No. 17,046.]
No. 9. Bottle with incised zig-zag design.
[No. 4809.]
PLATE VIII.
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BLACK AND RED WARE VESSELS. 253
No. 10. Black ware cup with incised zig-zag design.
[No. 30,456.]
Xo. 1 1. Two bottles joined, with single handle.
[Xo. 4824.]
Xo. 12. Yellow ware bottle ornamented with a branch-
design, inlaid. [No. 27,474.]
No. 13. Polished red ware vase of the same type.
[Xo. 36,019.]
Xos. 14-22. A fine series of false-necked vases,
commonly called Bugelkannen, or " pseudamphorae."
These vases are of the well-known Mycenaean type, and
were imported into Egypt from Greece. From B.C. 1500
to 1000. Xo. 16 is of special interest, for it was found in
the tomb of a grandson of Pi-netchem, king of Egypt,
about B.C. 1050. [Xos. 22,821, etc.]
Xo. 23. Mycenaean amphora. [No. 4858.]
Xos. 24-33. A group of polished red ware vases and
flasks, which have been thought to be of Syrian origin ;
the evidence on this point, however, is incomplete.
XVII Ith dynasty. B.C. 1500. [Xos. 36,407, 27,384, etc.]
Xos. 34-57. A series of vases of native Egyptian
manufacture, chiefly of polished drab ware.
[Xos. 4847, etc.]
Wall-Case 149. Here is arranged a series of burnished
or polished red ware vases, vase-stands, etc., dating from
B.C. 3700 to B.C. 1400. Of special note are : —
Xos. 58, 59. Vases with spouts, and necks in the form
of human heads. [Xos. 29,936, 29,937.]
Xo. 60. Vase in the form of a seated man.
[Xo. 24,653.]
Xo. 61. Vase in the form of a seated woman.
[Xo. 24,652.]
Xo. 62. Vase in the form of a dwarf carrying a vase
on his shoulder. [Xo. 29,935.]
No. 63. Vase in the form of a standing woman playing
a guitar. [No. 5114-]
254
FOURTH I'.NITIW ROOM — WALL-CASK I 50.
No. 64. Vase in the form of a seated woman. Fine
wink and polish. [No. 30,724.]
No. 65. Vase in the form of a dwarf squatting and
clasping his knees. [No. 29,934.]
No. 66. Vase in the form of a wine skin. Made for
Sanni. Inscribed in ink. XVI I Ith dynasty.
[No. 5 1 17.]
No. 67. A group of fine red ware vessels of the 1 Vth
dynasty. These consist of two lamp-stands, a vase stand,
five bowls, one of which has a spout, etc. From Gizeh
and Abydos. [Nos. 51KS, etc.]
WALL-CASE 150. Objects in blue glazed Egyptian
porcelain.
Shelves 1-3. Group of vase stands, Canopic jars,
bottles, etc. The most important are : — No. 1. Vase
stand, with a prayer to " Ptah, lord of life," for sepulchral
offerings [No. 35,414]. No. 2. Portion of a massive
bowl which was inscribed with the name and titles of a
king of Egypt [No. 32,597].
Shelves 46. A fine group of vases and jars, cups,
figures of gods, heads of animals,
etc., chiefly of the XVI I Ith and
X I Xth dynasties. No. 1. Plaque,
in the form of a pylon, inscribed
with the names and titles of
Amenemhat III. and the prince
Ameni. XI Ith dynasty. From
Thebes. [No. 22,879.]
No. 2. Green and black glazed steatite vase insciibed
with the names and titles of Thothmes I.
A fine and rare object. [No. 4762.]
No. 3. Portion of a cobalt-blue glazed
staff-handle (?) inscribed with the name of
Amen-hetep III. fo|i)^l> B.C. 1450.
[No. 24,743.]
No. 4. Plaque inscribed with the names and titles of
Amen-hetep III. and Queen Thi, for inlaying in the lid of
BLUE GLAZED PORCELAIN OBJECTS. 255
a box. The hieroglyphics are in dark blue upon a light
blue ground. This was found with the Tell el-Amarna
tablets. [No. 22,878.]
No. 5. Cobalt-blue glazed vase inscribed with the
name and titles of Seti I. f© ^ t^i ], B.C. 1370.
[No. 32,637.]
No. 6. Blue glazed porcelain boomerang inscribed
with the name of Amen-hetep IV., or Khu-en-Aten, and
ornamented with lotus flowers and Utc/iats, or the eyes of
the sun and moon. From Tell el-Amarna.
[No. 34,213-]
Blue porcelain Boomerang, inscribed with the name of
Amen-hetep IV. [No. 34,213.]
No. 7. False-necked vase (Biigelkanne, or pseud-
mphora), of Mycenaean type, with zig-zag design painted
in black. A very fine example. About B.C. 1300.
[No. 25,413.]
No. 8. Blue glazed porcelain jug, with one handle,
ornamented with diamond patterns and lotus leaves. The
shape is an imitation of a Mycenaean form. About B.C.
1300. [No. 22,731.]
No. 9. Blue glazed porcelain stibium pot and ape.
[No. 30,452.]
No. 10. Ushabti figure, inscribed in hieratic, made for
the lady Taaai ; XlXth dynasty. [No. 22,789.]
No. 11. Cobalt-blue glazed ushabti figure, made for
Heh, the scribe of the Pharaoh, XVIIIth or XlXth
dynasty. [No. 26,720.]
256 FOURTH EGYPTIAN ROOM— WALL-CASE I 5 I .
( )n the floor of this case is a very interesting earthen-
ware vase painted with figures of camels, trees, etc. Post-
Christian period ? From Argin, in Nubia. Presented by
Somers Clarke, Esq., 1899. [No. 30,712.]
WALL -CASE 151. Porcelain— continued. No. 1.
Blue glazed Canopic jar. XXI Ind dynasty [No. 9539].
No. 2. A group of fragments of vases inscribed with
the names of Rameses II., Rameses III., and Seti II.,
Menephthah. XlXth and XXth dynasties, B.C. 1200.
From Sarabit al-Khadim, in the Peninsula of Sinai
[Nos. 13.193. 13,200, 13,201, 37,430, etc.]. No. 3. Porcelain
cover of a vase in the form of Harpocrates [No. 35.055].
No. 4. Figure of Amemit, or "Eater of the dead" [No.
22,030]. No. 5. Menat amulet with the goddess Hathor
[No. 26,232]. No. 6. The Tet amulet (see page 210),
surmounted by horns, plumes, etc. [No. 739]. No. 7.
Figure of a cat (modern imitation ?) [No. 27,725]. No. 8.
Sphinx and cat [No. 11,865]. No. 9. Figure of a man
playing a double reed instrument [No. 26,318]. Nos. 10,
1 1. Pair of hands for sewing to the swathing of a mummy ;
(votive offerings?) [Nos. 11,393, I{,395]- No. 12. Cat and
kittens [No. 26,239]. No. 13. Standard with the aegis of
Khnemu [No. 26,235]. Nos. 14-23. Figures of gods and
goddesses : — Hapi [24,413], Shu [No. 411], Nefer-Atmu
[No. 35,064], Osiris [No. 735], Mentu-Ra [No. 344],
Bast suckling a king [No. 11,314], Sati [No. 26,237],
Bast with two kittens [No. 16,057], polytheistic figure
[No. 12,518]. No. 24. The snake-goddess Neheb-ka
[No. 12,055]. Nos. 25, 26. Two fine blue glazed funeral
vases inscribed with the name and titles of princess Nesi-
Khen
su ^\ ® 1 [Nos. 13,152, 17,402.]
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No. 27. Fine glazed libation vase, with spout, inscribed
with the name and titles of Sheps, a priest and scribe of
Amen-Ra, the king of the gods. [No. 13,151.]
No. 28. Cobalt and yellow glazed ware vase, orna-
mented with a floral design, and inscribed with the name
and titles of Rameses II. A very rare and interesting
object. [No. 4796.]
MISCELLANEOUS GLAZED PORCELAIN OBJECTS. 257
No. 29. Green glazed porcelain head of a giraffe.
From Tell el-Amarna. [No. 26,363.]
No. 30. Fragment of a green glazed porcelain boome-
rang', inscribed with the names and titles of Rameses II.
[No. 14,953-]
No. 31. Portion of a bowl inscribed with the name of
prince Kha-em-Uast, who held the office of high-priest of
Memphis. About B.C. 1300. [No. 13,169.]
WALL-CASE 152. Porcelain— continued. No. 32.
Blue glazed porcelain jug, with handle, ornamented with a
figure of a lady, in relief, making an offering at an altar.
The reading of the inscription on the side is doubtful.
Ptolemaic period [No. 37,407]. No. 33. Rhyton, with faces
in relief, and the end terminating in a bull's head. Greek
period [No. 37,452]. No. 34. Blue glazed porcelain figure
of the god Bes. Fine colour. This object was probably
one of two which formed the supports of a shrine [No.
22,112]. No. 35. Ape holding a goat [No. 11,910]. No. ^6.
Ape holding an utchat, symbolic of the moon [No. 11,987].
No. 37. Cobalt-blue porcelain figure of Ta-urt (Thoueris)
[No. 1 183]. No. 38. Green porcelain hedgehog; a fine
example [No. 36,345]. No. 39. Hippopotamus goddess
Ta-urt, wearing a disk, horns, and plumes ; a fine example
[No. 13,162]. No. 40. Hippopotamus; found with the
hedgehog of No. 38. The cavities for the teeth were
originally filled with metal spikes. A very fine example
[No. 36,346]. No. 41. Porcelain sow, suckling seven little
pigs. This object was a votive offering to Nut, " the great
lady, the god-mother " [No, 11,976]. No. 42. Dog-headed
ape, glazed in two colours. The species here represented
is found at the present day in Central Africa, and is
celebrated for its intelligence ; such apes chatter loudly
from dawn until sunrise, and for this reason the Egyptians
believed that they were the spirits of the dawn which
saluted the rising sun, and that when the luminary had
risen they turned into apes [No. 22,355]. No. 43- Menat
with aegis of Bast, and figures of Bes and the ntchat of
the sun in relief [No. 26,231]. No. 44. Similar object,
with figures of Neheb-ka and Harpocrates [No. 26,307].
No. 45. The goddess Neith, in the form of a human-headed
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serpent [No. 11,771]. No. 46. Kneeling woman suckling
her child at her right breast; on the back, in relief, is the
figure of a man (?) rising out of a basket or net. Fine
work [24,412]. No. 47. Green glazed steatite box in the
form of a sepulchral chest
[No. 23,056]. No. 48.
Seated figure of Thununa,
overseer of the cattle of
Amen-Ra in the reign of
Thothmes III. On his
knees is the figure of the
prince Term, B.C. 1 550 [No.
35,400]. No. 49. Green
glazed porcelain bangle or
amulet [No. 24,686]. No.
49«. Fine blue glazed
pectoral ornamented with
a figure of Anubis, and
drawings of the Buckle and
Tet (sec p. 210). [No.
24,705.] No. 50. Pendent
utchat with inlaid eye
[No. 26,300]. Nos. $ia-c.
Utchat, with figures of two
lions on the brow, and the
figure of an animal in relief
on the side [No. 22,838].
Porcelain plaques with
lit chats in relief [Nos.
24,684, 24,685].
WALL - CASES 153,
154. Porcelain — continued.
A fine group of glazed
porcelain ushabtiu figures,
among which may be
specially mentioned : —
No. 52. Portion of an ushabti figure of Hui
an official of Amen-Ra. XVIIIth dynasty [No. 34,185].
No. 53. Ushabti figure of Sa-Amen, an official of Amen-
Ra [No. 34,180]. No. 54. Portion of an ushabti figure of
Ushabti figure of king Seti I.
[No. 22,818.]
MISCELLANEOUS GLAZED PORCELAIN OBJECTS. 259
Pa-Ramessu [No. 34,184]. No. 55. Ushabti figure of Maa
[No. 9044]. Nos. 56, 57. Ushabtiu figures of Seti I., king
of Egypt, B.C. 1370 [Nos. 8895, 22,818]. Nos. 58-62. Blue
glazed porcelain ushabtiu figures of members of the family
of the priest-kings of Thebes, viz. : — -The princess Nesi-
khensu [No. 24,397], Pi-netchem [No. 30,400], queen
Hent:taui [No. 30,398], queen Maat-ka-Ra [No. 16,989],
and Ast-em-khebit [No. 24,396]. No. 62,. Ushabti figure
of the lady Bakthi [No. 29,406]. No. 64. Ushabti figure
of Nesi-ta-neb-asher, inscribed with a version of the Vlth
Chapter of the Book
of the Dead. All the
above are very fine
examples of the work
of the periods to which
they belong. [No.
24,398.] Nos. 65-70.
A group of ushabtiu
figures inscribed for
Tchanehebu, son of
Nefert-ith, a super-
intendent of the
royal barges [Nos.
34,278, etc.]. No. 71.
Blue glazed porce-
lain rectangular tile
or plaque, with a
representation of
the royal scribe Amen -em -apt adoring Osiris. XlXth
dynasty [No. 6133]. No. 72. Portion of a white glazed
vase with the name and titles of queen Nefer-ith inlaid in
blue glaze [No. 23,226]. No. y^. Large blue glazed
porcelain bowl, ornamented with figures of a lake and lotus
flowers in black outline. A very fine example [No. 4790].
Nos. 74-78. A group of small green and blue glazed
porcelain bowls, ornamented with designs of lotus flowers
and fish in black outline [No. 22,730, 22,788, 29,217, 29,940,
32,591]. Nos. 79-86. A group of blue glazed porcelain
bowls, ornamented with designs of lotus flowers and
running water [Nos. 13,153, 22,72,7, 24,678, 29,216, 29,939,
32,590, 35,415, 36,409]. No. 87. Bowl ornamented with a
S 2
Blue glazed porcelain Bowl. [No. 4790.]
260 FOURTH EGYPTIAN ROOM— WALL-CASES I 55, I 56.
figure of a calf (Hathor) standing in a boat which is
moored among lotus flowers [No. 35,120]. No. 88. Bowl
ornamented with figures of the head of Hathor and lotus
flowers [No. 29,359]. Nos. 89, 90. Two glazed porcelain
snakes which formed cases to hold mummied snakes [Nos.
25,359, 30,453]. No. 91. Blue glazed porcelain vase in the
form of a fish. Fine example [No. 24,410]. No. 92.
Portion of a lid of a box ornamented with figures of a gazelle
and branches [No. 26,387]. No. 93. Glazed steatite
spoon (?) or bowl, in the form of a gazelle lying down
[No. 26,817]. No. 94. Porcelain vessel in the form of a
flower [No. 24,687]. No. 95. Model of a bowl with spout
[No. 17,081]. Nos. 96, 97. Bowls with figures of couchant
lions on the flat lip [Nos. 22,016, 34,887]. No. gya. Small
bowl with spout, and figures of three frogs on the flat lip
[No. 24,689]. No. 97^. Blue glazed porcelain beard, from a
coffin [No. 6894]. No. 98. Portion of a blue glazed
porcelain wig [No. 14,950]. No. 99. Blue glazed porcelain
head-dress from a statue of a king, with bands and uraei
inlaid with plaques of carnelian and light-blue stone, set in
a gilded border [No. 2280].
WALL-CASES 155, 156. Porcelain — continued. No.
100. Large glazed porcelain jug with the figure of a queen
or princess making an offering at an altar. The handle is
ornamented with bearded male heads, and traces of gold
leaf indicate that portions of the woman's figure were
gilded. Ptolemaic period [No. 37,408]. No. 10 1. Blue
porcelain headless figure of a god holding a caduceus [No.
1418]. No. 102. Blue porcelain jackal (?). Roman period
[No. 22,761]. No. 103. Green porcelain flat figure of the
goddess Isis(?), for inlaying [No. 32,196]. No. 104.
Aphrodite Anadyomene. Roman period. From the
Fayyum [No. 34,208]. No. 105. Portion of a glazed
plaque, with a figure of a Roman galley in relief [No.
12,527]. Nos. 106-109. Four porcelain balls glazed black
and blue [Nos. 34,919, etc.]. No. no. Glazed plaque for
inlaying, stamped with the names and titles of Sha-
shanq I., about B.C. 960. On the reverse a prince called
Tchet-Heru-auf-ankh, and a princess are mentioned [No.
26,811]. No. in. Oval porcelain ornament with figures of
MISCELLANEOUS GLAZED PORCELAIN OBJECTS. 26l
Khnemu, uraei, crocodiles, ape, etc. [No. 22,889]. No. 112.
Blue porcelain spindle whorl [No. 34,215]. No. 113. Green
porcelain hollow-work spindle whorl. x\ fine example
[No. 34,216]. No. 114. Porcelain plaque for attaching to
the breast of a mummy, with a figure of Anubis bending
over the dead body as it lies on the bier. Christian period
[No. 22,874]. No. 115. Ushabti figure of Sorer, a sailor,
with the inscription in Greek. Roman period [No. 30,769].
No. 116. Portion of a green glazed porcelain draught-
board [No. 34,927]. No. 117. Head of an eagle [No.
34,905]. Nos. 118, 119. Two glazed porcelain ink-pots.
Roman period [Nos. 22,015. 27>387]- No. 120. Green
glazed porcelain bangle [No. 26,241]. Nos. 121, 122. Two
vases in the form of a hedgehog [Nos. 4764, 13,177].
No. 123. Dark blue porcelain model of the hieroglyph for
" heaven," F=q pet [No. 2050]. No. 124. Green porcelain
bell [No. 15,748]. No. 125. Portion of a figure of Isis
reclining on crocodiles. Roman period [No. 2392]. No.
126. Cippus of Horus [No. 11,821]. No. 127. Neck of a
porcelain vase ornamented with figures of Erotes (Cupids)
playing musical instruments. Roman period. From the
Fayyum [No. 35,059]. No. 128. Green glazed porcelain
ornament for a necklace, with figures of gods and goddesses
in relief. Very fine work. From Tuna [No. 26,303].
No. 129. Similar ornament with figures of Harpocrates
with uraei, and Isis seated on a throne among lotus flowers
[No. 26,233]. Nos. 130-132. Blue and green porcelain
figures of the god Bes, standing on a papyrus column, suck-
ling a young Bes ; at his feet sits an ape. These figures
seem to be parodies of the well-known figures of Isis
suckling Horus [Nos. 11,820, 26,267. 27,375]. Nos. 133-
138. A group of figures of Bes, chiefly of the late dynastic
and Ptolemaic periods.
Arranged on a sloping board standing on the floor of
Wall-Cases Nos. 151-156 is a fine collection of tiles and
fragments, glazed in many colours, from Tell el-Yahudiyyeh,
the site of the famous city, about 20 miles from Cairo,
which was built by Onias, the high-priest, about B.C. 160.
These tiles, rosettes, etc., formed part of an extensive
decoration of the walls of a chamber in a temple, which
was rebuilt by Rameses III., about B.C. 1200, in honour of
262 FOURTH EGYPTIAN ROOM— WALL-CASE 157.
the god Temu. Tin's temple seems to have existed in the
time of Seti I., about B.C. 1370, and it was one of the must
important in the Delta; it is probable that a temple
occupied the site SO tar back as the Xllth dynasty.
Several of the specimens here exhibited display the great
skill of the Egyptians in glazing tiles under the XVI Nth
and XlXth dynasties, and of especial interest are the
figures of captives [Nos. 326, 330, 339-341, 350], the orna-
mental borders, rosettes, etc. [Nos. 148-249].
WALL-CASE 157. Porcelain objects of the Saite
period, etc. No. 139. Glazed porcelain hawk for inlaying.
Fine work [No. 1835]. No. 140. Porcelain vase, in the
shape of an ibex, with a small figure of an animal on the
pedestal. From Memphis. About B.C. 600 [Xo. 4765].
No. 141. Vase inscribed with the name of Nekau (Necho)
/vw^5^ V' kmS °f Egypt, about B.C. 600 [No. 24,238].
No. 142. Glazed porcelain jug with the prenomen of
Amasis II. foQOl, inscribed in dark blue glaze [No.
lZ^7S\ No. 143. Part of a menat (see p. 210) inscribed
with the name of Apries ( O^Ol, king of Egypt, about
B.C. 580 [XTo. 37,360]. Xo. 144. Upper portion of a
porcelain model of a sistrum [No. 34,190}. No. 145.
Handle of a porcelain model of a sistrum inscribed with
the names and titles of Amasis II. T^ = (o Q "0" J \^
C^nli^DI "til' king of Egypt' about B,c s?2
[No. 34,201]. No. 146. Portion of the handle of a porcelain
model of a sistrum, inscribed with the prenomen of
Psammetichus II. folO ], king of Egypt, about B.C. 596
[No. 34,203.] No. 147. Fine greyish white glazed ushabti
figure of Tcha-Heru-ta rfc? VV ttt->, inscribed with the
Vlth Chapter of the Book of the Dead. XXVIth dynasty
[No. 8971]. No. 148. Porcelain figure of Ptah-Seker-
Asar, with ram's head turned behind him. XXXth
dynasty. Presented by the Marquess of Northampton
[No. 109].
EARTHENWARE AND TERRA-COTTA VESSELS. 263
WALL-CASES 158-164. Earthenware amphorae,
jars, vases, etc., of the Sai'te and Ptolemaic periods.
Worthy of note are : — No. 149. Rough vase ornamented
with a grotesque head of the god Bes [No. 14,957]. No. 1 50.
Two-handled vase ornamented with a grotesque head of
the god Bes [No. 5091]. No. 151. The god Bes, wearing
plumes, standing on a pedestal [No. 22,378]. Nos. 152-160.
A group of terra-cotta vases ornamented with the head of
Bes [No. 5098, etc.]. No. 161. Flat vase, with neck in the form
of a lotus flower, with seated apes at each side ; on the side
is inscribed the wish that Ptah, Sekhet; Nefer-Temu, and
Neith may " open a happy year," i.e., give a " Happy New
Year " to the owner of the vase [No. 4767]. No. 162. Vase
of similar shape, ornamented on one side with a figure of
the cow of Hathor and lotus flowers in outline. On the
flat edge is a series of rosettes, and above these is inscribed,
" May Isis open a happy year for its owner," and " May
Amen-Ra open a happy year for its owner." r ^ \J \ T
avtw\ f\ .minim, r ± /wwva
^7 ,Ey T^' [No. 24,651]. No. 163. Small vase, of
similar shape, with an inscription for the New Year [No.
32,592]. No. 164. Glazed porcelain in the shape of a
human-headed bird [No. 32,593]. No. 165. Neck of a
large two-handled wine-jar, with plaster sealing stamped
with the prenomen of Amasis II., king of Egypt, about
B.C. 572 [No. 22,356]. No. 166. Portion of a plaster sealing
of a wine jar stamped with the name of King Psammetichus
[ p P f^.^33^ 1 [No. 23,791]. Nos. \66a-f. Six large terra-
cotta vases, inscribed in Coptic and Demotic [Nos. 36,501,
etc.].
WALL-CASES 165-170. Here is exhibited a large
miscellaneous collection of terra-cotta vases, jugs, bowls,
cups, saucers, etc., which belong chiefly to the Sai'te and
Ptolemaic periods, i.e., from about B.C. 600 to B.C. 50. On
the top shelf is a series of vases inscribed in rude hieratic
characters with the names of drugs, medicines, unguents,
etc. ; they probably belonged to an apothecary's store, and
were found in a chamber near a tomb of the VI th dynasty
264 FOURTH EGYPTIAN ROOM — WALL-CASES 165-170.
at Aswan in 1887. Among the objects on the three middle
shelves arc of interest : — No. 167. Red tcrra-cotta three-
handled vase inscribed with the name Amcn-em-uaa (I
tjN [No. 38,432]. Nos. 168-170. Portions of the
handles of jars stamped with the name of the temple in
the city of Khut Aten, to which they belonged [Nos. 23,306,
etc.]. Nos. 171-174. A group of four jars, inscribed with
the names of the substances which they contained ; each
vase has the original mud cover on it, and on one of them
is a portion of the linen with which it was tied up [Nos.
4948-4951]. Nos. 175-182. A group of small terra-cotta
vases inscribed in hieratic and demotic ; of various periods
between B.C. 1200 and A.D. 100 [Nos. 21,713, etc.]. No. 183.
Terra-cotta vase ornamented with a covering of blue glazed
porcelain bead-work [No. 38,433]. Nos. 184, 185. Two red
terra-cotta bowls inscribed in hieratic. XVIIIth or XlXth
dynasty [Nos. 32,614, 32,615]. No. 186. Red terra-cotta
bowl, the outside of which is inscribed in hieratic. XXth-
XXIInd dynasty [No. 30,361]. No. 187. Portion of a flat
bowl inscribed in Coptic [No. 27,718]. No. 188. Buff-
coloured bowl, ornamented on the inside with a floral
design. Late period [No. 21,998]. No. 189. Vase in the
form of a pigeon [No. 38,436]. No. 190. Vase in the form
of a duck [No. 38,437]. On the floor of the case are : — A
series of terra-cotta two-handled jars, small sepulchral
vases, plaster stamps, etc. Among the smaller objects
may be mentioned: — No. 191. Cover of an amphora
stamped with the prenomen of Amen-hetep III., king of
Egypt, B.C. 1450 [No. 38,438]. No. 192. Portion of a vase
inscribed with the name of Tetau q ^b> [No. 38,435].
No. 193. Jar-sealing stamped with the name of Rameses II.
[No, 38,434]. No. 194. Jar-sealing made of clay and
linen ; the sealing is stamped with ten impressions of a
scarab [No. 22,002]. No. 195. Half of a mould for making
small, two-handled terra-cotta vases, with sides ornamented
with a two-headed winged serpent, having a serpent at
the tip of each wing [No. 23,350]. Nos. 196-203. Eight
EARTHENWARE AND TERRA-COTTA VESSELS. 265
plaster and terra-cotta stamps of the Roman and Coptic
periods ; after A.D. 100 [Nos. 20,917, etc.].
WALL-CASES 171-174. Earthenware and terra-
cotta vessels chiefly of the Graeco-Roman period, B.C. 200-
A.D. 150. Top Shelf : — No. 204. Bowl with figure of Osiris
standing on Maat and four serpents [No. 5138]. No. 205.
Similar bowl, with figure of Osiris [No. 5139]. No. 206.
Similar bowl, with figure of Ur-hekau [No. 5142]. No. 207.
Similar bowl with figure of Amen-Ra, king of the gods
[No. SH1]- Nos. 208-209. Similar bowls, with figures of
two deities standing in a boat floating on the celestial Nile
[Nos. 5135, 5140]. Nos. 210, 211. Similar bowls, with
figures of ten gods and goddesses painted on each in white
outline [Nos. 5136, 5137]. Third Shelf : — No. 212. Terra-
cotta platter ornamented with the figure of a fish painted in
white outline [No. 36,035]. No. 213. Similar platter painted
in black, with figures of pods of some vegetable, and wavy
lines to represent water [No. 36,036]. Nos. 214-216. A
group of three dark, earthenware, flat, two-handled vases,
ornamented with rosettes, bands, etc. ; each has two
handles, and two projections at the base on which it could
be set upright. On No. 214 are incised the hieroglyphics
!VH1oi#S ^N°S' 3°'445' 32'°49' 36,032]. Nos.
217-219. A group of glazed ware, two-handled vases,
ornamented with grotesque faces of Bes and other deities
[Nos. 15,476, etc.]. No. 220. Black ware jug in the form of
a pig [No. 15,475]. No. 221. Red ware vase in the form
of a seated man [No. 21,876]. Fourth Shelf: — No. 222.
Earthenware pilgrim bottle found in clearing out a water
wheel pit near Eastern Semneh, i.e., Kummeh. Presented
by Somers Clarke, Esq., 1899 [No. 30,709]. No. 223. Terra-
cotta basket [No. 30,726]. No. 224. Red terra-cotta water
bottle ornamented with figures of a fish, a tree, and a man
leading an animal into a house or stable [No. 5248]. No. 225.
Red terra-cotta jar with ribbed ornamentation and a spout
terminating in the head of an animal [No. 35,358].
WALL-CASE 175. Unbaked Bricks. Here is a
group of typical sun-dried bricks, many of which are
stamped with the names of kings of the XVIIIth and
266 FOURTH EGYPTIAN ROOMt— WALL-CASE 1 7 5.
XlXth dynasties, B.C. 1700 to B.C. 1300. The art of brick-
making appears to have been introduced into Egypt by
the people who entered the land in the late predynastic
period, and who eventually conquered it and settled down
in the country. They came from some part of Western
Asia, and it is thought
that they may have
been related to the
dwellers in Southern
Babylonia, where the
art of brick-making had
attained a high pitch of
perfection. Babylonia
contained large masses
of a peculiar kind of
clay, which was emi-
nently suited for the
making of bricks, and
the earliest Babylonian
bricks known to us are
baked, and stamped with
the names of the kings
who had them made.
The mud of Egypt was
not very suitable for the
making of bricks of a
large size, hence Egyp-
tian bricks are relatively
small, and it was found
necessary to mix chop-
ped straw {tebeji) and
reeds, hair, etc., with the
mud in order to bind
it together. The Egyp-
tians never succeeded in making such large, well-shaped
bricks as the Babylonians and Assyrians, and want of fuel
prevented them from burning their bricks on a large
scale. No. 2 is stamped with the name and titles of
Amen-hetep III., B.C. 1450 [No. 6016]. Nos. 3 and 15
bear the name of the high-priest of Amen, Pa - ren - nefer
[Nos. 6023, 6024]. Nos. 5, 11, 24, bear the name of
Sun-dried mud brick stamped with the
name of Rameses II. [No. 6020.]
EGYPT. ANTIQUITIES OF THE GR^CO-ROMAN PERIOD. 267
Thothmes III., and come from Thebes [Nos. 601 1-
6013]. Nos. 6, 12, 14, 17, 21, bear the name of
Rameses II. [Nos. 61 18-6022]. No. 7 bears the name of a
" steward of Amen " called Thothmes [No. 483]. Nos. 9
and 13 bear the name of Thothmes I. [Nos. 6009, 6010],
Nos. 18, 19, 22, 23 came from the Pyramids of Hawara.
Dahshur, Ulahun [Nos. 6005-6008]. Several of the above
bricks were presented by Lord Prudhoe in 1835, Col.
Howard Vyse and J. S. Perring, Esq., in 1840, and Sir J.
Gardner Wilkinson.
WALL-CASES 176-181. On the top shelf are several
examples of heads of portrait figures, and portions of
statues of the Graeco-Roman period, which have been
found at Alexandria and at various places in the Delta.
On shelves 2-4 are arranged groups of bronze figures
of Egyptian and Greek gods and Heroes of the Graeco-
Roman period. The most interesting are: — 1. Bust of a
queen wearing tiara, necklace and pectoral [No. 36,050].
No. 2. Draped figure of an emperor or philosopher [No.
36,049]. No. 3. Upper part of a figure of Aphrodite,
a.d. 200 [No. 12,272]. No. 4. Bust of Diana, or Luna
[No. 36,068]. No. 5. Bust of a monarch [No. 36,067].
No. 6. Head of Herakles [No. 36,066]. No. 7. Head of
Zeus Serapis [No. 24,768]. No. 8. Emblema in the shape
of a bust of Serapis [No. 12,271]. No. 9. Aphrodite,
wearing the disk, plumes, and horns of Isis, and holding a
mirror in her left hand [No. 32,584]. No. 10. Bronze figure
of Aphrodite. The eyes are of silver inlaid [No. 36,075].
No. 11. Lamp, in the form of Eros holding a wine skin.
From Alexandria [No. 36,071]. No. 12. Figure of
Harpocrates holding a cornucopia [No. 36,077]. No. 1 3.
Massive bronze figure of Horus attired as a Roman soldier
[No. 36,062]. No. 14. Cock-headed Gnostic figure, arrayed
in Roman military attire. Presented by Maj. -General
A. W. N. Meyrick, 1878 [No. 36,052]. No. 15. Bronze
figure of Canopus, emblem of Osiris-Serapis, wearing the
disk and plumes of the Atef crown, and pectoral [No.
26,264]. No. 16. Bronze figure of the god I-em-hetep
(Imouth : Asklepios) [No. 579]. No. 17. Weight from a
steelyard, in the form of a bust of a man wearing a helmet
268 FOURTH EGYPTIAN ROOM — WALL-C A SES 1 76- I 80.
surmounted by a disk and a cluster of lotus flowers [No.
36,055]. No. iS. Bronze figure of the god Bes [No. 36,060].
No. 19. Bronze figure of the god Amen-Ra, wearing disk
and plumes, and holding the emblem of life in his left
hand. Round his neck is a necklace, with a pendent
pectoral, and on his right wrist is a bracelet [No. 27,356].
No. 20. Kneeling figure of a man holding an altar before
him. The wings at the back show that it formed an
ornamental support for some object like a box [No. 37,642].
No. 21. Portion of a handle of a swinging lamp ( No. 38,530].
No. 22. Deep bronze collar, inscribed with three ovals
containing figures of gods, and three lines of hieroglyphics
[No. 38,528]. No. 23. Bronze model of a fire altar [No.
38,541]. No. 24. Bronze jug ornamented with a human
head wearing a tiara [No. 38,520]. No. 25. Bronze figure
of Ptolemy Alexander, having the attributes of the genius
of Alexandria. From Alexandria [No. 38,442]. No. 26.
Bronze figure of Cleopatra Selene, having the attributes
of the goddess Fortuna. From Alexandria [No. 38,443].
No. 27. Bronze weight of the Coptic period (3 lbs. 2-25 oz.
Troy) [No. 6193]. No. 28. Bronze weight of the Coptic
period (2 lbs. 7*25 oz. Troy) [No. 6192].
On the shelves and slope in the lower part of Wall-
Cases 176-180 are collections of terra-cotta and bronze
lamps, and miscellaneous pieces of inscribed stones from
the walls of temples. Among the lamps may be specially
noted : — No. 1. Portion of a lamp with the name of
Victor in relief [No. 38,158]. No. 2. Lamp with the name
of Abba Joseph, the Bishop, upon it in relief [No. 23,330].
No. 3. Mentioning the name of one Peter [No. 20,777].
No. 4. Lamp, with handle, mentioning the name of Abba
Joseph [No. 22,829]. No. 5. Lamp mentioning the name
of Mark, the Evangelist [No. 23,329]. No. 6. Portion of
a lamp, with handle, ornamented with a cross in relief
[No. 23,331]. No. 7. Lamp in the form of a bust of
Serapis [No. 38,419]. No. 8. Lamp in the form of a bust
of Osiris [No. 38,425]. No. 9. Lamp, with two nozzles,
supported by a figure of Bes. From the Fayyum [No.
15,485]. No. 10, Lamp in the form of Minerva seated in
a bath [No. 12,744]. Nos. 11-16. Terra-cotta lamps, each
with the figure of a frog upon it in relief [Nos. 5187, 21,948,
TERRA-COTTA LAMPS, PILGRIM BOTTLES. 269
etc.]. Nos. 17, 18. Terra-cotta lamps, each with the figure
of a dog upon it in relief [Nos. 24,703, 38,450]. No. i8<?.
Lamp, with figures of a dog and mythical animals in relief
[No. 38,470]. No. 19. Lamp with figures of horses and a
mounted soldier in relief [No. 38,469]. No. 20. Lamp,
with the figure of a horse in relief [No. 38,471]. No. 21.
Lamp in the form of an elephant's head [No. 38,423].
No. 22. Lamp with the figure of a winged gryphon in
relief [No. 38,473]. No. 23. Lamp, ornamented with
several figures of animals in relief [No. 20,785]. No. 24.
Rectangular lamp, with places for ten wicks [No. 38,418].
No. 25. Lamp, with three nozzles [No. 5227]. No. 26.
Triangular lamp, with places for ten wicks [No. 38,416].
No. 27. Lamp, with upright handle, ornamented with the
figure of a woman in relief [No. 38,477]. No. 28. Lamp,
with four nozzles [No. 38,417]. No. 29. Circular lamp,
with six projecting nozzles [No. 38,141]. No. 30. Lamp,
with two nozzles, ornamented with figures of Jupiter,
Serapis and Europa (?) on a bull [No. 38.412]. Nos. 31,
32. Lamp handles, ornamented with mythological scenes
in relief [Nos. 38,542, 38,543]. No. 33. Bronze lamp, with
the figure of a mouse on the cover [No. 38,444]. No. 34.
Bronze lamp, with the cover on a hinge [No. 38,445].
No. 35. Bronze lamp in the form of a horse [No. 38,446].
No. 36. Bronze lamp, with handle in the form of the neck
and head of an animal [No. 5335]. All the above men-
tioned lamps belong to the Graeco-Roman and Christian
periods. Nos. t>7 and 38, which are of glazed terra-cotta,
belong probably to the Christian or Arabic period [Nos.
4803, 38,475]. No. 39. Lamp in the form of a negro's
head; late period [No. 15,478].
Nos. 40-57. A group of terra-cotta two-handled,
pilgrim-flasks, or bottles, which were made near the
shrine of Mar Mina, or Saint Menas, which lay about
nine miles from Alexandria. They were used for holding
oil which had been blessed, either by contact with the
relics of the saint, or by a blessing pronounced by the
abbot of the time, and they were suspended by strings.
Menas appears to have been born at Mareotis, and he
suffered martyrdom under the Emperor Galerius at Alex-
andria ; before he died he begged that his body after death
FOURTH EGYPTIAN ROOM -WALL-CASES I So, 1S1.
might be placed on a camel, and that the animal might be
turned loose into the desert. This was duly done, hut his
body was found hy miraculous means, and was buried near
Alexandria. In commemoration of these things the greater
number of these flasks have figures of the saint and a
camel, or camels, upon them, in relief; a halo encircles the
saint's head, and his hands are raised in benediction.
Mam- of the bottles are inscribed in Greek EYAOTIA
TOY AHOY MHNA, or simply TOY AHOY MHNA,
or O AT IOC MHNAC. The most characteristic exam-
ples of the flasks of Afar ATina are Nos. 40 and 41 ; No. 42
is of interest, for whilst the figure of the saint is wanting,
the familiar Greek inscription is given within a circular
ornamental border [No. 17,083, etc.].
In Wall-Cases 180 and 181 are examples of Roman
keys, a hinge of a small door, and bronze cases for door-
pivots, etc. Of interest are : — -No. 58. Bronze bolt, with a
lion's head. Presented by Professor Petric [Xo. 16,038].
No. 59. Bronze chain, composed of large, flat, circular links,
with bronze pendent figure of Harpocrates [No. 38,544].
No. 60. Disk or patera, with handle and emblemata in the
form of busts of Serapis and Isis [No. 38,526]. Nos. 61-66.
Six iron keys [No. 23,346, etc.]. No. 67. Bronze pivot case
from a large door, inscribed with the names of" the queen
Tefnut, the high-priestess of Amen, Shep-en-Apt, a royal
princess, and the high-priestess Amenartas. About B.C. 600
[No. 36,301]. Bronze pivot case, from a door [No. 15,738].
On the floor of Wall-Cases 181 and 182 is a large
collection of weights made of stone, porcelain, etc. The
largest, No. 68, came from Memphis, and weighs about
121 lb. Presented by Colonel A. Bagnold, R.E., in 1887
[No. 20,652]. No. 69. Rectangular weight inscribed with
the prenomen of Amen-hetep I., B.C. 1700 (o W U 1
[No. 38,546]. No. 70. Basalt duck-weight inscribed with
the prenomen of Psammetichus I., B.C. 666 T T Cq | ol
[No. 27,394]. No. 71. Circular weight inscribed with the
prenomen of Amasis II. [o Q'O'] [No, 38,545].
BASKETS, OBJECTS FOR THE TOILET. 2/1
WALL-CASES 182 187. On the top shelf is a col-
lection of baskets of various shapes and sizes, which were
placed in the tombs to hold bread cakes, dates, and other
fruit, etc. ; the oldest of them date from the period of the
XVIIIth dynasty, about B.C. 1600. Of interest are: —
No. I. Vase-shaped basket ornamented with a floral design
in coloured grass or papyrus [No. 38,552]. No. 2. Small
hollow-work basket, with blue glazed porcelain beads
arranged in zig-zag rows [No. 16,058]. No. 3. Basket,
with circular, conical cover, and strengthened with a net-
work cord [No. 6346]. No. 4. Oval basket, with a coloured
design woven into it [No. 6312].
On the second shelf are arranged large typical collections
of toilet objects, including bronze mirrors and razors,
tubes and pots for stibium, or eye-paint {kohl), combs,
hair-tweezers, handles of fans, etc., of various periods,
chiefly from the XVIIIth dynasty to the Coptic period,
i.e., from B.C. 1600 to A.D. 500. Among the mirrors may
be mentioned those with ivory or bone handles [Nos. 1-6] ;
No. 7. Mirror, with a wooden handle, in the form of a lotus
flower, No. 8. Mirror with a wooden handle in the form of
the perch of the hawk of Horus [No. 2732]. No. 9.
Mirror of unusual size and shape, with a wooden handle in
the form of the god Bes [No. 37,176]. No. 10. Mirror,
with a wooden handle in the form of a lotus flower, and
ornamented with gold bands [No. 37,175]. No. 11. Mirror,
of unusual shape, with a handle in the form of a lotus
column surmounted by a head of Bes [No. 2737]. No. 12.
Mirror, the lotus handle of which is surmounted by two
hawks [No. 32,583]. No. 13. Mirror, with lotus handle
surmounted by four ursei [No. 20,756]. Nos. 14, 15.
Mirrors, with handles ornamented with Hathor heads
[Nos. 29,428, 37,174]. Nos. 16, 17. Mirrors, having handles
in the forms of women with raised extended hands and
arms [Nos. 20,773, 37>l73l- No. 18. Bronze mirror, with
green glazed steatite handle in the form of a lotus column,
on the upper part of which is an inscription showing that
it was made for Menthu-em-hat, the son of Heq-ab,
,w^VK Y> ^\ ~^^ \I^ j*. M^ • I hese names sua-crest that
this mirror was made during the Xlth or Xllth dynasty, or
272 FOURTH EGYPTIAN ROOM— WALL-CASES 1X2-187.
perhaps a little earlier [No. 2736]. Nos. (9,20. Handles
of fans, or fly-flappers [Nos. 5509, 5510]. No. 21. Portion
of the handle of a fan inscribed with the name of Nebseni,
Fig. 1.
Fig. 3-
Bronze Mirror and Tubes for Eye-Taint.
Fig. 2.
the inspector of the goldsmiths of Amen, p^
Minimi
^
Ud
XVI I lth dynasty [No. 37,172].
TUBES AND VASES FOR EYE-PAINT. 273
Among the tubes and pots for eye-paint the following
are of interest : — No. 22. Porcelain tube inscribed with the
names of Amen-hetep III. and Queen Thi, B.C. 1450
[No. 27,236]. Nos. 23, 24. Porcelain tubes inscribed with
the names of King Tutankh-Amen and Queen Ankh-sen-
Amen, B.C. 1400 [Nos. 2573, 27,376]. No. 25. Variegated
glass tube in the form of a lotus column (see fig. 1), with
needle [No. 2589]. No. 26. Marble stibium pot inscribed
with the name of Paatenu (?) Ax' ^\ U ^r ° v ~H
[No. 37,192]. No. 27. Haematite stibium pot, the upper part
of which is plated with gold [No. 32,151]. No. 28. Stibium
pot, with cover, on four-legged stand [No. 29,931]. No. 29.
Opaque blue glass stibium pot, with cover, edged with
gold. XVIIIth dynasty [No. 24,391]. No. 30. Green
glazed steatite stibium pot, with hollow-work side, on four-
legged stand [No. 37,234]. No. 31. Stibium tube, in the
form of a man, made of lapis-lazuli and gold ; the bone
needle is ornamented with a gold band, on which is the
emblem of " life " in relief [No. 30,481]. No. 32. Ivory
stibium tube in the form of Bes [No. 2571]. No. 33.
Bone stibium tube ornamented with annules and zig-zag
patterns [No. 61 81]. No. 34. Reed stibium tube, with
needle, and leather case in which it was carried [No. 12,539].
No. 35. Green glazed steatite ape holding a stibium tube
[No. 21,895]. No- 36- Steatite stibium pot, with two tubes
[No. 30,052]. No. 37. Wooden stibium pot, with two
tubes, double cover, and needle [No. 2597]. No. 38.
Obsidian stibium pot, with two tubes, and ornamented
with a figure of Bes in relief [No. 2599]. No. 39. Ivory
stibium pot and needle (see fig. 2), with two tubes in the
shape of lotus columns [No. 22,839]. No. 40. Wooden
stibium pot, with two tubes, inscribed with the names of
Amen-hetep III. and Queen Thi [No. 37,202]. No. 41.
Bone stibium tubes ornamented with female figures in
relief [No. 30,464]. No. 42. Terra-cotta stibium pot in the
form of the triple crown, with three tubes ; the needle is
surmounted by a figure of the hawk of Horus [No. 2612].
No. 43. Green glazed steatite stibium pot, with four tubes,
inscribed with the signs for " life, good luck, stability "
fA f? , and the name of its owner, the scribe Aah-mes
.\~| FOURTH EGYPTIAN ROOM — WALL-CASES 1S2-187.
l°u^*"MTlyr 'N,<'' -v'"''\- No. 44. Stibium case made oi
wood inlaid with ivory, with loin tubes [No. [8,176].
No. 45. Stone stibium pot, with four tubes [No. 37,191]
No. i<>. Wooden stibium case, with four tubes, three of
which held kinds of eye-paint which were suitable for
particular seasons of the year. One tube held the e\ e-
paint for use in the spring, another held that for use in the
summer, and a third held that for use in the period of the
Inundation; a fourth tube held a kind which is said to he
"good" lor every day, J) \\ T O 1 . This case was
. _ w W& ° III O^zy
made for the scribe Aah-mes [No. 27,196]. No. 47. Stibium
case, with four tubes ; inscribed with the name of Amen-
mes (1 (I'm'^T [N°- 26oq]. No. 48. Stibium case in
the form of a hippopotamus, with four lubes [No. 27,371].
No. 49. Wooden comb ornamented with the figure of a
horse [No. 21,893]. No. 50. Wooden comb with the back
in the form of an animal [No. 2678]. No. 51. Wooden
double comb, having teeth of two sizes, with a figure of a
clog in the handle in hollow-work [No. 25,260]. No. 52.
Similar comb, but of larger size, with a figure of a camel in
the handle in hollow-work [No. 26,683]. Nos. 53-62. A
group of wooden combs, some having teeth of two sizes
j No. 2681, etc.]. No. 63. Bronze comb [NO. 24,633]. No.
64. Handle of a bone comb, with the figure of a goose
[No. 20,993]. No. 65. Bone comb, with ornamental handle
[No. 18,666]. No. 66. Bronze razor (?), with handle in the
form of an oryx [No. 20,761]. No. 67. Bronze razor (?),
with handle in the form of a man riding a horse [No.
36,314]. Nos. 68-73. A group of bronze razors, one of
which (No. 68) is inscribed with the prenomen of
Thothmes III. fo £ta §H [No. 17,087, etc.]. No. 74. Pair
of bronze forceps, with ends in the form of fishes. With
them is the wooden last by which they were kept in shape
[No. 37,206]. Nos. 75 79. Bronze and iron tweezers [No.
37,215, etc.]. No. 80. Bronze implement, with pointed
ends, and case for the same [No. 20,776].
On the same shelf is a collection of painted porcelain
bottles inscribed in Chinese characters, with short ex-
CHINESE PORCELAIN BOTTLES. 275
tracts from the writings of poets ; they appear to have
been used for scent, unguent of some kind, or snuff, and
were not found in the ancient tombs of Egypt, as was once
supposed, but among the ruins of buildings and graves
along the old caravan route from the Red Sea to Kena on
the Nile, which passes through the valley now known as
Wadi Hammamat. It was formerly thought that some of
these bottles dated from the XVIIIth dynasty, but the late
Sir Wollaston Franks, K.C.B., was able to show that the
kind of porcelain of which they are made was not known
before the Xlllth century of our era, and it is now toler-
ably certain that they were brought from China by the
Arab traders, who travelled between China and India and
Western Africa, in the XVth, or even XVIth century.
No. 81. Porcelain bottle inscribed in Chinese with the
words, " Only in the midst of this mountain " (or, " Alone
in this mountain "), which are taken from a poem by Kea
Taou, who flourished from AD. 831-887. This bottle was
found at Nimrud on the Tigris [No. 93,098]. Nos. 82, 83.
Porcelain bottles inscribed in Chinese with the words,
" The opening flowers have opened in another year," which
are taken from a poem by Ying-wuh, who flourished from
a.d. 702-795 * [Nos. 24,695, 35,444]. No. 84. Porcelain
bottle inscribed in Chinese, " The clear moon shines amidst
the firs " [and the sap becomes amber in a thousand years] ;
the author of these words was Wang Wei, who flourished
in the first half of the Vlllth century of our era [No.
37>239]- Nos. 85-88. Porcelain bottles with Chinese in-
scriptions, which have not yet been deciphered [No.
35,443, etc.].
On the wall of the case, mounted on boards, is a
collection of bronze, ivory, and wood hair pins and studs,
and needles for stibium pots and tubes.
On the third shelf the principal objects of interest are : —
No. 1. Bronze bowl containing pieces of blue colour used for
painting papyri [No. 5556]. Nos. 2-9. Pieces of ochres of
various colours, red, blue, green, yellow, used for writing and
* On the inscriptions on Chinese bottles of this class, see
Transactions of the China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society,
Tart III., 1851-52, Hongkong, 1853, p. 45 ff.
T 2
276 FOURTH EGYPTIAN ROOM — WALL-CASKS 1S2 187.
painting on papyri [Nos. 38,269, etc.], Nos. to, 11. Mullers
and slabs for grinding paint [Nos. 5548, 23,337 8], No.
12. Alabaster slab, with seven circular hollows for holding
portions of paint or unguent ; above cadi the name of the
substance it was intended to hold is given in hieroglyphics.
This object was made for the nobleman and priestly official
Atena (1 ^^ (1 . From Abydos [No. 6123]. Nos. 13, 14.
Two slabs, with similar hollows and inscriptions ; the
names of their owners are not given [Nos. 6122,29,421].
No. 15. Alabaster slab, with six crystal and black stone
bottles and vases, and two stone instruments, the use of
which is unknown [No. 5526]. No. 16. Wooden plaque,
with rounded top, ornamented with a design in outline, in
which Amen-hetep I. is seen standing in his chariot [No.
2429]. No. 17. Portion of a box which was made for an
official of Pepi I. Vlth dynasty [No. 5910]. No. 18.
Portion of an inscribed wooden object which was made for
a priest called Amen-sa [No. 38,550]. No. 19. Wooden
box, with portion of a lid with a long hinge [No. 5906].
No. 20. Rectangular case made of papyrus leaves and
stalks [No. 5918]. Nos. 21-24. Semicircular case or box,
with carved designs inlaid with white paint, and portions
of other cases similar in shape, inlaid with bone leaves
[No. 5921, etc.]. No. 25. Portion of a wooden and ivory
box, ornamented with a design of lotus flowers painted in
red and green [No. 38,283]. No?. 26-29. Wooden figures
which formed the ornamentation of the sides of a funeral
chest [No. 23,178, etc.]. No. 30. Part of the fastening of a
funeral chest, inscribed with the prenomen of Amen-
hetep III. [No. 38,282]. Nos. 31-33. Wooden unguent
boxes, ornamented with incised floral designs. Very fine
work [No. 592 1, etc.]. No. 34. Circular box, with unguent
[No. 5923]. No. 35. Wooden box in the form of a
hippopotamus [No. 22,825]. No. ^6. Painted funeral chest,
with four compartments, and two baskets [No. 21,818]. No.
37. Wooden funeral chest, with a dedicatory inscription to
Osiris [No. 5907]. No. 38. Portion of a box inlaid with
plaques and flowers in light and dark blue porcelain [No.
38,252]. No. 39. Portion of a box made for the scribe
Tehuti-hetep [No. 30,801]. No. 40. Portion of a box made in
WOOD AND IVORY BOXES, PETRIFIED WOOD. 2JJ
the form of two animals [No. 30,800]. No. 41. Ebony and
acacia wood box, with ivory fastenings painted pink [No.
23,057]. No. 42. Model of a sepulchral box inlaid with a
chequer pattern in ivory, ebony, and acacia wood [No.
20,784]. No. 43. Hard wood toilet box, of which the cover
is surmounted by a woman-headed sphinx, and the sides
are ornamented with delicately cut figures of gods in relief.
The inside is in the form of a cartouche. Ptolemaic period
[No. 29,598]. No. 44. Wooden box in the form of a duck
[No. 29,367]. No. 45. Wooden box, veneered with ivory,
and ornamented with ivory panels, on which are cut figures
of gods and goddesses, birds, flowers, etc. Several ot the
designs are painted. A rare and fine example of late
Roman funeral chests [No. 5555]. No. 46. Wooden box,
with rounded cover, ornamented with bands of ivory incised
with annules [No. 5901]. No. 47. Rectangular toilet box
ornamented with incised lines and annules. From the
Fayyum. Early Coptic period [No. 37,349].
On the floor of Wall-Cases Nos. 182-187, are :— Nos.
1, 2. Portions of pillars ornamented with disks of porce-
lain painted with rosettes, and with buds and flowers
[Nos. 38,273, 4]. Nos. 3, 4. Architectural ornaments in-
scribed with the names of Rameses III. [Nos. 1 1,753, 38,277].
o
No. 5. Brown stone weight inscribed nnn [No. 23,065].
D nnn L
No. 6. Portion of a tree trunk found in the masonry of
the Great Pyramid at Abusir. Presented by Col. H. Vyse
and J. S. Perring, Esq., 1839 [No. 38,259]. No. 7. Palm
leaf capital and abacus from a model of a pillar. Presented
byF. G. Hilton Price, Esq., 1903 [No. 37,900]. Nos. 8-10.
Pieces of petrified wood from the remains of a forest near
Wadi Haifa. Presented by Colonel Hollcd Smith, 1887
[Nos. 38,260-38,262]. No. 11. Bronze architectural orna-
ment in the form of a lion's head [No. 38,280]. No. 12.
Wooden stand for holding a sepulchral vase [No. 2471].
No. 13. Stand for funeral offerings made of reeds and
papyrus [No. 6302]. No. 14. Rectangular seat from a
stool, made of plaited papyrus, covered with leather on
which is painted a rectangular design in red, white, and
blue [No. 2517].
278 FOURTH EGYPTIAN ROOM — WALL-CASES [88 190.
WALL-CASES 188-190. Furniture, wooden models,
etc. On the upper shelf and on the floor of these cases
arc: — No. i. Stool in wood, painted white, with framework
sides and concave scat ; an interesting specimen | No. -476].
No. 2. Portion of the upper framework of a stool, with
remains of the seat, which
was made of palm fibre
covered with leather [No.
2475]. ^ Nos. 3, 4. Two
wooden legs from a throne-
made in the form of the
head and fore paws of a lion
[Nos. 2518, 2519]. No. 5.
Wooden chair, with sloping
back, and seat made of
plaited string [No. 2479].
No. 6. Leg of a chair or
throne, the upper part of
which is in the form of the
w o m an-headed serpent
M e r s e k e r t
the seat is
acacia wood
[No. 2480].
On the second shelf are
from a large wooden statue ;
which was made for Nefer-
Mera(?) [No. 2559]. No. 7.
Portions of the framework
of a bronze ceremonial
seat, or chair ; much re-
stored. Presented by Walter
Myers, Esq., F.S.A., 1884
[No. 13,513]. No. 8. Low
chair, with legs in the form
of lion's paws, and straight
back, inlaid with ivory and
ebony in panels set in
made of plaited string
— No. 9. Right arm and hand
on the wrist is cut the royal
prenomen, Ra-tcheser-khcper-sctep- en-Ra ('Heru-em-
heb?), and other characters, which were inlaid with coloured
paste, or porcelain [No. 36,427]. No. 10. Group of wooden
WOODEN MODELS AND PORTRAIT FIGURES. 279
figures on a stand. One carries a wine jar on his head,
two are kneading or treading out some substance in jars,
another stands before a circular table or bench, etc. [No.
36,423]. No. 1 1. House, within which is a group of figures
engaged in cooking food, and packing it, and carrying it
away in rectangular baskets [No. 30,719]. No. 12. Model
of a man engaged in mixing dough (?) in a bowl [No.
23,348]. No. 13. Stone model of a woman rolling dough
on a board [No. 2378]. No. 14. Wooden model of a man
squatting and fanning a fire [No. 29,596]. No. 15. Model
of a woman carrying a rectangular basket on her head with
bread cakes, joints of meat, etc. [No. 30,716]. No. 16.
Group of models of butchers who are engaged in slaying
and cutting up animals [No. 30,718].
WALL-CASES 191-193. Here is exhibited an inter-
esting collection of large and small portrait figures,
chiefly in wood and bronze, which belong to various periods
between B.C. 2600 and A.D. 100; nearly all of them were
found in tombs. The most interesting are : —
No. 17. Wooden figure of Kuatep, a high priestly
official who flourished about B.C. 2600 (see pages 72 and
114). From Al-Barsha. [^0.30,715.]
No. 18. Painted wooden figure of a lady of the family
of Kuatep. [No. 29,595.]
No. 19. Painted wooden figure of a lady of the family
of Kuatep, who carries a bundle on her head. Very fine
work. [No. 20,867.]
No. 20. Model of a bull belonging to Kuatep, with a
disk and plumes between his horns ; he is followed by his
keeper. Fine work. [No. 24,713.]
No. 21. Painted wooden figure of a lady of the family
of a kinsman of Kuatep, who was buried in the mountain
near the modern Al-Barsha. Xlth or Xllth dynasty, B.C.
2600-2500. [No. 22,541.]
No. 22. Wooden figure of a high official, wearing a full
wig and an elaborately pleated garment. XlXth dynasty.
[No. 2320.]
F01 r ni EGYPTIAN ROi >M \\ \l.|.-< ASES [91 [9
No. 23. Bronze kneeling figure of Rameses II., wear-
ing the i row 11 of the South, and making an offering of two
vases of wine. XlXth dynasty, B.C. 1300.
[No. 32,747.]
No. 24. Painted wooden figure of the priestess Re-
Shat ?)-pet ^M^^^. XXth dynasty.
[No. 2370.]
No. 25. Figure of a woman carrying a sepulchral chest
"ii her head; she wears large earrings, and a long tre
hair falls by each side of her face. [No. 32,767. |
No. 26. Wooden figure of a woman carrying a cat.
[No. 32,732-]
No. j~. Wooden figure of a woman wearing a full-
bottomed wig, carrying a cat. [No. 32,733.]
No. 28. Wooden figure of a king, with moveable arms,
carrying a vessel with a handle in one hand, and an un-
defined object in the other. [ No. 2325.]
No. 29. Porcelain figure of a woman earning one
gazelle on her neck and shoulders, and leading another by
its horns. After the XXIInd dynasty. [No. 2369.]
No. 30. Wooden figure of a king or prince, with his
collar and tunic gilded. [No. 2335.]
No. 31. Bronze figure of a king. After the XXIInd
dynasty. [No. 2276.]
No. 32. Bronze figure of a king, with featherwork tunic
inlaid with gold, in the character of An-Her. Fine work.
[No. 2277.]
No. 33. Bronze figure of a king (Tirhakah?), wearing-
double plumes, in the character of the god An-lIer-Shu.
XXVth dynasty. About B.C. 700. | No. 32,761.]
No. 34. Votive bronze figure of a god wearing the
triple crown, and standing upon a sledge with runners; it
was dedicated to the god by Heru-sa-Ast. [No. 32,746.]
No. 35. Wooden sepulchral figures of Ileru and Uah-
ab-Ra-meri-Ptah ; both officials were attached to the
service of the god " Ptah-Seker-Asar, lord of the hidden
shrine." XXV I th dynasty. [No. 32,731.]
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CASTS ILLUSTRATING THE WARS OF RAMESES II. 281
No. 36. Wooden figure of the lady Bet-en-Reshep
1 w 1, wearing a necklace of coloured porcelain
AAAAAA Q
beads. This figure was made to commemorate the de-
ceased lady at the expense of her son (I fe^ I •¥■
X—7 Q On/WW>A l^^.-Srl 1 AAAAAA
$f $f I J • XXVIth dynasty. [No. 32,774.]
No. t,1/. Wooden figure of Theta, a man of very high
rank, and a high priestly official ; the eyes are inlaid with
obsidian and white stone. XXVIth dynasty.
[No. 29,594.]
No. 38. Bronze hands and arms which were originally
fixed on the head of a statue, to indicate that it was the
ka or " double " of the deceased. [No. 27,389.]
No. 39. Green glazed inscribed steatite roll or seal,
which was originally held in the hand of a statue of Queen
Amenartas, about B.C. 725. In one cartouche is the name
of the Queen Mut-khau-neferu ^^\\ TTT, and in
the other is the name of the " High-priestess Amenartas"
M ^ q. A rare object. [No. 29,212.]
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On the north and south walls of this room are two
painted plaster casts, which illustrate scenes in the Syrian,
Libyan, and Nubian wars of Rameses II. The)' were
taken by the late Mr. Joseph Bonomi from the walls of
the rock-hewn temple which Rameses II. built near
Kalabsha to commemorate his victories. On the north
wall are the following scenes : —
I. Rameses sitting under a canopy, and wearing a
crown with disk, plumes, and four pendent urgei ; near his
feet lies his favourite lion. In the upper register one of his
sons is leading a number of fettered men into his presence,
and in the lower register a company of men are tendering
their homage to him.
II. Rameses slaying a member of a Libyan tribe;
above his head is the vulture, the emblem of the king's
protecting goddess.
282 FOI Kill 1 GYPTIAN ROOM PAINTED PLASTER < ASTS.
III. Rameses in his chariot i harging the Libyans.
IV. Rameses slaying Libyans in one of their fortresses.
V. A son <>i Rameses II. bringing Syrian prisoners
into the king's presence.
On the south wall are the following scenes:
I. Rameses and his two sons, Amen-hcr-unami-f and
Kha-em-Uast, in their chariots, charging the Nubians.
II. Rameses, seated under a canopy, receiving gifts of
gold rings, leopard skins, prisoners, apes, panthers, giraffes,
oxen, gazelle, ostriches, ebony, bows, feathers, fans, i hairs
of state, tusks of elephants, a lion, an antelope, etc. ; all
these things must have been brought from the Northern
Sudan.
283
INDEX.
Aa 96
Aah-hetep ... ... ... 201
Aahmes I., palette of, 15, 97,
190, 249
Aahmes, a scribe ... ... 274
Aahmes-nefert-ari ... 23, 37
Aahmes-sa-pa-ari ... ... 201
Aa-pehti, stele of ... ... 76
Aa-qenen-Ra, King ... 201
Aasith ... ... ... 165
Aaua ... ... ... 71
Abraham, the bishop ... 231
Abraham of Tcheme ... 231
Abraxas ... 239, 240, 241, 242
Abraxas Opheon ... ... 241
Abusir ... ... ... 277
Abydos ... ... ... 118
Acquittances, written in
Greek ... ... ... 18
Adam ... ... ... 39
Adze, iron socketed, 9 ; iron and
bronze ... ... ... 45
Aegis of Bast ... ... 34
Ra 33
Af, the dead sun-god, or
Night-sun ... 79, 80, 87
Agathodaimon ... ... 237
Aha, King ...
Aha-shere ...
Ai
Aker
PAGE
5°) 55> 56> 57
115
191, 203
166, 175
Akhmim, textile fabrics
from ... ... 21, 24
Akori ... ... ... 239
Al-'Amrah. near Abydos ... 58
Al-Barsha, antiquities from, 71,
112, 251
Alpha ... ... ... 240
Altars, clay models of, no; in
bronze ... ... ... 185
Amasis I., see Aahmes ... 201
Amasis II.. King, 44, 208, 262,
263, 270
Amemit, the " Eater of the
Dead" 256
Amen, the god, rise of his
cult ... ... 123, 124
Amen-ari ... ... ... 82
Amenartas, 192, 245, 250, 270,
281 ; figure of, 103 ; scarab
of ... ... 192
Amenartas, son of Aahmes,
bronze measure of ...184
Amen-em-apt, figure of ... 97
•*•!
I\M \.
PAGI
Amen em hit I., Km*; 189, i<m
Amen-em-ha.1 1 1.. King, 189, 1 99
shell inscribed with his name,
'75
A nun rm hat III., 190, 199,
254 : figures of 94
Amen-em hat IV. ... ... 199
Amen em hat, a precentor... 1 \(>
Amen-em-heb, an official,
figures of ... 97, 98
Amen-em-pert, figure of ... 99
Amen-em-uaa, an official ... 264
Amen-Harpocrates ... 162
Amen-her-unami-f, son of
Rameses II. ... ... 282
Amen-hetep I., King, 37, 190,
201, 249, 270
Amen-hetep II., King, 190, 202,
249, 251; axe-head of, 6;
glass vase of ... ... 34
Amen-hetep III., King, 12, 15,
30, 109, 202, 219, 247, 254;
figure of, 98 ; scarabs of, 190-
192 ; brick of ... ... 266
Amen-hetep IV., King, 124, 191,
202, 220, 255 ; head of, ico;
relief of, 101 (see Khu-en-
Aten).
Amen-hetep, an overseer ... 102
Amen-hetep, a priest, box
. of 1 '5
Ameni ... ... ... 254
Amen-mes, 274; palette of 15
Amen-mescs ... ... 191
Amen-Ra, the god, 34, 124, 129,
1 'AGE
1 <<<>, 1 <» 1 , 1 <u, 238 : drawing
11I, 1 1 ; h\ inn to ... 14
Amenrut ... ... ... 20X
Ann n sheps en Aab., stele of 75
\ mi nt , goddess ... ... 163
Amentet ... 61, 1 26, 195
Am-kheft-k, figure of ... 91
Amphora? ... ... ... 263
Ainsu, or Min 31, 131, 159
Amsu-Amen, figure of ... 99
Amsu-mes, figure of ... 99
Amulet, flint ... ... 60
Amulets, in hard stone, 209-212 ;
in porcelain, 224; Gnostic, 238
An 198
Anatolios ... ... ... 235
Andrews, Mrs., gilts of 67, 69
Anepu, figure of ... ... 91
Angle amulet ... ... 213
An-her ... 159, 251, 280
An-her-Shu ... ... 280
Ani, 2 ; papyrus of ... 2, 27
Ankh, the symbol, 25 ; instruc-
tions of ... ... ... 11
Ankhet ... ... ... 92
Ankh-f-en-Khensu, stele of 7<;
Ankh-f-Khensu, stele of ... Si
Ankh-pa-khrat, 83 ; figure of 92
Ankh sen-Amen ... ... 273
Ankh s-nefer-Ra ... ... 31
Anna, Queen ... ... 190
Annua, figure of ... ... 91
Anpu, the god (see Anubis), 1 12,
114
Anqet, goddess ... ... 163
INDEX.
285
PAGE
Antef Y., King ... ... 190
Antef, an official ... ... 91
Anthat ... ... ... 165
Anthony, Dr. J., gifts of, 215, 218
Anthretha, goddess
165
Antoninus ...
20
Antonios, a monk ...
234
Antonius Malchseus
...
19
Anubis, 66, 67, 122, 144; figures
of the god
I4&
1 149
Ape, the dog-headed
166.
257
,, of Thoth
34
Apep, King, 249 ; figure of
91
Apepa
200
Apes, mummies of...
62
Apet
33
Aphrodite Anadyomene,
229,
23°>
267
Apis, the god (see Hap)
166
„ bulls...
60, 61
Apollo
39
Apries, King 33, 104,
208,
262
Apu, box of
IJ5
Ap-uat ... 66,
112,
166
Arabia
128
Archangels, the Six
242
Argin
256
Ari-nekht-tcha, stele of
81
Ari-set-aru, stele of
81
Aristoteles ...
18
Armour scales
9
Arrow-heads, flint, in 1
eed
arrows
8
, 59
Artaxerxes ...
209
Asir (Osiris)
119
Aset-em kheb, box of ... 113
Aset-it, box of ... ... 116
Ashtoreth ... ... ... 165
Asklepios ... ... ... 267
Assa ... ... ... 198
Ass-headed deity ... ... 240
Ast (Isis) ... ... ... 119
Ast-em-khebit, 180, 185, 259 ;
stele of ... ... ... 77
Astharthet ... ... ... 165
Astit, box of ... ... 1 12
Ast-nefert ... ... ... 204
Atch-ab, King ... ... 52
Aten heresy ... ... 124
Atena, sepulchral antiquities
of ... 44, 183, 247, 276
Ateth 198
Ath 189
Athembu, figure of ... 95
Auf 87
Aui 82
Awls ... ... ... 22
Axe-head of Amen-hetep II. 6
Axe-heads in bronze and iron, 5 ;
in breccia, 48 ; models of 7
Baal
Bagnold, Colonel A.
Bait
Bak-en-Mut
Bakenrenf ...
Bak-en-suten-bi, staff of
Bakren
Ba-nefer, palette of
Bangles
... 165
64, 270
... 239
... 26
... 207
... 26
... 77
... 15
... 215
286
INDEX.
Baal) 165
Basa en-Mut, stele of ... 78
Baskets ... ... ... 271
Bast 32, 64, 151. rs3, [56, 257
Bast, aegis of ... ... 34
Bat C>
Bathi ... ... ... 259
Battle axes ... ... ... 6
Baubo ... ... ... 230
Bends, archaic, 222 ; in hard stone,
223; in porcelain 179, 213
Bear ... ... ... 46
Bed ... ... ... 226
Beetle, case for mummied 68
Bells ... ... ... 174
Beltis 165
Bennu ... ... ... 168
Bes, 71, 164, 230, 237, 240, 241,
257, 261, 263, 268, 271 ; head
of
Besh
Bes Mut ...
Besodora ...
Betchau
Bet-en-Reshep
Biddle, Mr. T., gift of
Bion
Birds, mummies of
Bitter Lakes
Blacksmiths
Boat, the Atet
,, the Sektet
„ of Millions of Years, 87, 126
Boats, funeral, 73 ; models
of 86 ff.
... 13
••• 53
79, 80, 81
20
•■- 53
... 281
• 32
. 18
• 67
. 121
. 129
• 87
.. 87
Bonomi, Mr. I. ... ... 281
Book of Coming forth by Day 120
Hook dt tin I lead, (2, 11 0. 1 20,
[25 : list ni' chapters <>l in
Papyrus <>i Ani ... 27 29
book-, of ihe I Inderworld, 125,
126
Boomerangs ... 26, 257
Borer, stone ... ... 43
Bottles, Chinese ... 274, 275
Bows ... ... ... 2<>
Box for arrows ... ... 8
,, scales ... ... [6
Boxes, ebony, ivory, etc., 276,
j;; : sepulchral... ... 112
Boyne, Mr. \\\, gift of ... 69
Bracelets .. ... ... 215
Bread baskets ... ... 36
Bricks, unbaked, inscribed
with royal names 265-267
Bronze bowls ... ... 180
„ vases ... ... 181
Buckets ... ... ...184
Buckle amulet ... ... 210
Biigelkannen ... ... 253
Buiu-uaua ... ... ... 216
Bull, model of ... ... 279
,, red breccia ... ... 248
„ Apis and Mnevis, early
cult of ... ... 61
Mullet for a sling ... ... 9
burnishers, crystal ... 44
Button, gold ... ... 52
( laesar Ciermanicus
116
INDEX.
287
PAGE
Cakes of bread ... ... 36
Cambyses ... ... ... 208
Camel, sale of ... ... 233
Campbell, Mr. W. McOran,
statue presented by ... 98
Canephores ... ... 230
Canopic jars, 108, 112 : in
faience ... ... ... 254
Canopus ... ... ... 229
Carders for wool ... 22, 25
Carlisle, Earl of, the gifts of, 98,
250
Carthamus Tinctorius .... 24
Cartouche ... ... . 211
Cartouches of kings ... 198
Casts, painted on walls ... 281
Cat, the sacred, 167 ; the hunt-
ing 37
Cats, mummies of, 64 ; cases for
mummied
...
64
Celt, flint ...
59
Chain
270
Chair of state
214
Chairs
225,
278
Cheops
189,
198,
246
Chert knives
59
Chester, the late Rev. G
•J-,
the gifts of
225,
236
China
275
Chisels, 41 ;
limestone,
43 5
bronze ...
45
Christy Collection ...
4
Cippi of Horus
148
Cistophoros
230
Clamps, stone
36
PAGE
Clarke, Mr. Somers, the gifts
of ... 69, 193, 256, 265
Claudius ... ... ... 19
Clay seals ... ... .. 16
Cleopatra, a Theban lady... 17
Cleopatra Selene ... ... 268
Club, 26; spiked ... ... 109
Cnaeus Pompeius Felix ... 238
Combs, 35 ; for the hair, 35,
271, 274 : for wool 22, 25
Commodus ... ... 17
Company of gods ... ... 122
Cones, sepulchral ... ... 107
Constantine and Licinius ... 238
Coprophagi ... ... 187
Coptic crosses ... ... 236
,, ostraka ... ... 229
,, school exercises ... 18
Coptos ... ... 18, 19
Copts, i.e., Egyptian Chris-
tians ... ... 25, 236
Corn grinders ... ... 36
Couch ... ... ... 225
Cow ... ... ... 167
Cow-goddess ... ... 150
Crete ... ... ... 12
Crocodile-god ... 158, 167
Crocodile, mummies of 66, 67
Crocodilopolis ... ... 67
Crucifixion, the ... .. 243
Crutch . . ... ... 27
Cubes in felspar, etc. ... 48
Cubit measures ... 42, 43
Cuirass in linen ... ... 10
Cupid 229, 231
288
INDEX.
PAGE
PAGE
Cuttle-fish ...
... 4^»
Ducks
- 36
Cylinder-seals
... 189
1 >um palm nuts
••• 36
Cymbals
... 174
1 )w,irf, the ...
... I.5
Cynocephalus ape
... 62
IT h/~\n 11 1 J 1 1 1 1 1. -c
r <"\ r r
Daggers, 7 ; stone and wood 8
Dahshur, 267; scarabs of... 220
Dakkeh
Daphnre
Daphnai
I >arius Hystaspes ...
Darius Xerxes
David, a monk
David of Tcheme . . .
Dekans, the Thirty-six
Delta
Demeter
Diana
Diodorus Siculus ...
Dionysos ...
Dioskle
Dioskoros ...
Dodd, Mrs. C. Ashley, gift
of
Dog, mummy of ...
Dolls 180, 181
Doubleday, Mr. J., gift of... 69
Drafts of literary composi-
tions ... ... ... 10
Draughts and draughtboxes,
and draughtboards, 181, 214,
215, 261
Drill 45
Drill-holder ... ... 43
Drill-socket ... ... 45
... 19
• •• 43
... 32
... 208
... 209
... 234
... 231
... 13
120, 126
... 230
... 267
... 61
... 230
••• 233
... 232
32
65
5°, 51
Egypt Exploration Fund 30, (.3,
46, 103, 1 o(>, r 10, etc.
Eihannes ... ... ... 232
Elephant ... ... ...212
Elephantine ... 19, 20
Eleusis ... ... ... 230
Elias ... ... ... 231
Emery hones ... ... 43
Emma-Bastet, stele of ... 80
En-neter, king ... ... 53
Enoch ... ... ... 233
Epaphus ... ... ... 62
Eparourion... ... ... 18
Epigrams ... ... ... 19
Epiph ... ... ... 17
Epiphanios... ... ... 233
Ermont ... ... ... 233
Eros 39, 231
Erotes ... ... ... 229
Euripides ... ... ... 18
Europa ... ... ... 269
Evans, Sir John, K.C.B.,
gifts of ... ... 6, 10, 41
Eve 39
Eye of Horus ... 139, 145
Eye-paint tubes and slab, 35,
50, 273, 274
Faience, archaic ... ... 52
Fans ... ... ...271
Farm, inspection of ... 22
INDEX.
289
PAGE
Fayyum ... ... 94, 229
Feast, fresco of ... ... 22
Ferrules ... ... 8, 44
Fields of Peace ... ... 126
Figures, portrait ... ... 279
Fingers, amulet of the ... 212
Fish, dried, 36 ; mummied, 67;
sacred ... ... ... 167
Fish-hooks ... ... 9, 42
Fish-tax ... ... ... 18
Flint arrow-heads ... ... 8
,, borers ... ... 59
„ dagger 7
„ knives, and other wea-
pons 59
Flints, Palaeolithic and Neo-
lithic 58
Flutes ... ... ... 174
Fly amulet ... ... ...210
Fly-flapper ... ... ...272
Followers of Horus ... 128
Foods, 36 ; list of... ... 14
Fortuna ... ... ... 268
Fossil palm-tree ... ... 108
Foundation deposits 43, 44, 109
Fowling scene ... ... 37
Franks, Sir A. Wollaston,
K.C.B., gifts of... 8, 275
Frescoes ... ... 21, 22, 37
Frog ... ... ... 168
Fruits ... ... ... 36
Furniture ... ... 225, 278
269
234
63
■•• 33
40, 242
••• 233
;S.
Galerius
Gardiner, Mr. A. H.
Gazelle, mummy of
Gebelen
Geese
George, Saint
Gergorios ...
Germanos ...
Gibson, Mr. T., gift of ... 216
Glass, 35 ff. ; beads, 222; vessels,
3°. 34
Gnostic amulets and gems... 238
Gnosticism... ... ... 239
Gods, Egyptian, description
of 116 ff.
Gods, figures of, in metal... 29
Gold dagger plates ... 7
„ rings ...
Grain bags ...
Granary
Grave-clothes
„ shirts
Grenfell, Lord, gift of
217—220
44
180, 182, 183
38
... 24
.. 182
Gabriel
Gaius
242
*9
Haa-ab-Ra ... ... ... 104
Hades ... ... ... 62
Haggard, Mr. H. Rider, gift of 243
Hair pins ... ... ... 275
„ tweezers ... ... 271
Halbert blades ... ... 6
Hama . . . i, figure of ... 99
Hap, or Hapi, the Nile-god, 61,
J57
Hapi, son of Horus 144, 146
Hare ... ... 70, 167
U
2ijO
INDEX.
PAGE
Harmachis ( Herd khuti) ... 124
Haroeris ... ... ... 127
Harpaesis ••• •■• ... ig
Harpocrates, 31, 127, [44, 229,
23°. 237, 241, 243, 257 ; figure
of M7
Harpokration ... ... 17
Harps 173, 174
Hart, Mr. Ernest, gift of ... 189
Harua, figure of ... ... 103
Hathor 142, 149, 150, 229, 239
Hat-mehit ... 142, 147, 167
Hatshepset, Queen, 45, 109, 214,
217, 249
Ilawara
UciH aiu ...
Hawk of Horus
$1,
165
Hawker, Mrs., the g
ifts of
10S
iiawks, mummied..
68
Haworth, Mr.
Jesse,
the
gifts of ...
214
Head-dress in g
ass
35
Heart amulet
210
,, in bronze
43
Hedgehog ...
261
Heh, figure of
255
Heliopolis ...
Si,
121
Hemaka
51
Henas
18
llen-nekht ...
54
Hent-taui ...
io5
Heq-ab
271
Heq-reshu ...
44
Herakleides
18
Herakleopolis, gods
of
123
Her-ari-su, stele
of..
75
PAGE
1 [ero, son of Ptolemy ... 109
1 terodotus 62, 118
Heru-em heb, 12, 191, 203, ,
98
2 So
figure of ...
Heru, 85 ; an official
Heru-a, figure of, 72; stele
' of
Heru4^huti ...
Heru-netch-tef-f
Heru-pa-neb-ta
Heru-p4chart
Herusa-Ast
Heru-sa-f, figure of
Heru-shemsu
Heru-sma-taui
Heru-ur, 125 ; figures of ..
Heru-utcha, stele of
Heru-utchat
Heru-utchat pe-shere-Bastet,
figure of ... ... ... 106
Hesepti ... ... 51, 120
Het-Benben ... 124, 128
Hetepet ... ... ... 95
Hetep-Amen, 80; stele of 75
l.letep-sekhemui ... ... 53
Hieratic, drafts of works in 12
Hinges ... ... ... 270
Hippopotamus, slate, 33, 168;
and Horus ... ... 128
... 80
... 124
... 144
... 147
... 125
147, 280
... 91
... 49
• 237
127
83
104
Hoes
44, 45, io9
Holy Gate at Syene ... 19
Home, Mr. J. A., gift of ... 63
Hones ... ... ... 43
Horn, drinking ... ... no
,, hilt of knife... ... 41
INDEX.
29I
PAGE
Horus ... ... 121, 122
„ the Aged ... 127, 144
,, the Younger ... 127
„ Anubis ... ... 140
„ of Behutet (Edfu) 73, 128
„ Ra ... ... ... 121
., the fourteen forms of 128
„ and Saint Michael ... 243
,, and Thoth, figure of 140
,, cippi of ... ... 148
Horse on wheels ... ... 182
Houses, models of ... no
Hra-Amen ... ... ... 98
Hu ... ... ... ... 52
Hui, 258; figure of ... 103
Huni 198
Hunting expedition ... 38
Hut, models of ... in, 112
Hymn to Amen-Ra ... 14
„ in praise of learning 14
Hymns, drafts of, in hieratic 10
Iakob, Apa ... ... 231
Iao ... ... ... ... 242
Ibis, mummied ... 68, 69, 166
Ichneumon, mummied, 67, 68;
figure of ... ... ... 167
I-em-hetep, 31, 130; figures of,
134
I-em-ta-pet . . . ... ... 76
Illahun ... ... ... 267
Imouthes ... 31, 130, 267
Incense burner ... ... 184
India ... ... ... 275
Ink ... ... ... 16, 17
PAGE
Ink-pots ... ... 17, 261
Instructions of Ainen-em-
hat I. ... ... ... 13
Instructions of Ankh ... n
Inventories... ... ... 13
Iohannes ... ... ... 233
Iron, plate from the Great
Pyramid ... ... ... 41
Isak 233, 234
Isidoros ... ... ... 19
Isis, 119, 122, 125, 229; figures
of ... ... ... 146
Isis-Hathor ... ... 147
Isis-Hathor-Selqet ... ... r46
Isis-Hat-mehit ... ... 142
Isis-Mut ... ... ... 142
Isis-Selqet ... ... ... 142
Isis-Sept ... ... ... 142
Isis-Sothis ... ... 146, 147
Ivory, 7 ; carding comb, 25 ;
dolls, 47 ; labels and plaques,
50; beads, 51; figure of a
king, 55; boxes, 179; figures
of women ... ... 47
Jackal, the, 166; mummies of, 65
Jah ... ... ... ... 240
Jar-sealings of early kings, 49,
51. 52> 53, 54, 57; of king of
the XXVIth dynasty ... 264
Javelin heads ... ... 8
Jehovah ... ... ... 240
Jewellery ... ... 215-221
John, Saint ... ... 242
Joseph, Abba ... ... 268
U 2
292
[NDEX.
Julius Fronto
Jupiter
Jupiter Serapis
Justinian
PAGE
20
... 269
229, 230, 24]
. . ... I20
Ka, 1-i'iy; 49
Ka-em-Uast, figure of ... 98
Ka-en-Ra ... ... ...215
Kalabsha ... ... ... 281
Kalinekos ... ... ... 233
Karnes, King, 10, 201 ; axe-head
of
Kanure, cone of ...
Karakos, Apai
Karei
Karuthet ...
Ka-sekhemui
Kashta
Ka-tep
Keftiu, names of ...
KLena
Kent
Ketesh, goddess, drawing of
Keys
Kha-em-Uast
Khafra ... 189, 198,
Kha - kheper - Ra - senb, an
author
Khama-Heru, statue of
Kharitou ...
Khas(?)
Khasekhemui-Besh
Khas-hetep, figure of
Khensu, an official
Khensu-Tehuti, mummy of
6
108
232
190
35
57
207
246
12
275
165
12
270
282
247
11
102
233
x3
53
104
43
3
PAGE
Khent, King ... ... 51
Khepesh sword ... ... 10
Khephren ... [89, 198, 2 17
Khepera ... 1 22, 1 25, 188
Kheprera ... ... ... 187
Kherp sceptre ... ... 10
Khert-nefer, figure of ... 102
Khiau ... ... ... U)0
Khnemu, 66, 163, 164 ; figure
of ... ... ... 2 J 1
Khnemu-em-riat, figure of... 103
Khnoumis ... 66, 237, 240, 242
Khoiak ... ... ... 19
Kholkhnoubis ... ... 240
Khonsu ... 31, 160, 161, 162
Khonsu Xrier hetep 160, 161
Khu-en-Aten ... 124, 125
,, relief of 100, 203
„ statue of ... 101
Khufu ... 189, [98, 246
Khut-Aten...
Kneading troughs...
Knife-saw ...
Knives in bronze and iron
Knot of Thothmes III.
Kohl sticks
Kosmas
Kua tep
Kunimeh
Kyrikos
1 24
36
42
9 ff.
181
42
235
72, 112, 114, 279
265
231
Labyrinth ... ... ... 94
Lacrimarium ... ... 35
Ladder, ropes and rungs of 109
Ladle 184
INDEX.
293
PAGE
Lake at Thebes ... ... 21
Lamb, mummy of ... ... 66
Lamp ... ... ... 184
Lamps ... ... 268, 269
Land-tax ... ... ... 18
Lapis-lazuli ... ... 16
Lead counterpoise... ... 42
„ vase ... ... ... 185
Leather, roll of, belt, strap, 10 ;
shoes ... ... ... 3
Legal documents ... ... 12
Leigh Sotheby, the gift of... 107
Letter, draft of ... ... 14
Libyans ... ... ... 282
Licinius ... ... ... 238
Linen fabrics ... ... 22
Lion, sacred ... ... 166
Liturgy, fragment of ... 231
Lizard, mummied ... ... 67
Luna ... ... ... 267
Maa, ushabti figure of ... 259
Maahes ... ... 158, 159
Maat, 138, 150; figure of. .. 140
Maat-Heru-Ru, stele of ... 77
Maatiu-ariu, stele of ... 83
Maat-ka-Ra ... ... 259
Mace-head, of Sargon of Agade,
48 ; spiked ... ... 48
Mace-heads ... ... 47
MacGregor, Rev. W., textiles
given by . . . ... ... 40
Magical figure in wax ... 20
Mahu, figure of ... 97, 98
Mallets, masons' ... ... 45
Manetho ...
Manfalut
Mantell, Dr. G., gift of
Mapu
Mar Mina
Mareotis
Maria, 20 ; the nun
Mark, the Evangelist
Marouf
Mary the Virgin ...
Mastaba, model of
Matchaiu, the
Matthaios
Mecheir
Mehen
Mehti-em-sa-f
Meh-urt
Melanthis
Memphis, 61, 123
Mena ... 50,
Menas, Saint
Menat amulet 30,
Menat, goddess
Mendes
Menelaus ...
Menephthah I.
II.
Menes
Menhi
Men-kau-Ra
Menth-ari-tas
Menthu-em-hat,
of
Menthu-hetep, figure of
Menthu-Ra, figures of
PAGE
52> 53
... 66
4
••• 75
269, 270
... 269
•■• 234
... 268
••• 235
... 242
... 1 10
108
233
20
79,87
*99
... 151
l9
gods of, 130
118, 198, 234
269, 270
i33> 2IO> 256
163
... 167
... 229
... 204
... 204
118
156
189
81
57,
71
108
91
130
294
INDEX.
Mera, statues of
Mer-ba-pen
Mer-en-Ptah
Mrri, box of
Meri-mes, cone of
Mer-p-ba ...
Mer-Nit
Mersebs, figure of
Mersekcr ...
Mersekert ...
Mershi
JNTes, an official of
Meskhenet ..
Mesniu, the
Mesore
Mestha
Metrical compositions
Meyrick, Mr. A. W. H., the
gifts of ... ... ... 267
Michael ... 241, 242, 243
Millbank, Mr. A. Sussex,
the gift of ... ... 23
Millefiori glass ... 35, 225
Min ^ ... 31, 132, 159
Min-Amen, figure of ... 99
Minerva ... 229, 230, 268
PAGE
92
52
162
115
108
52
54
9i
..11, 76, 229
155. J56> 278
... 73
Amen ... 21
*5r> T52
... 129
20
144, 146
... 14
Min-mes, figure of..
Mirror
Mizael Konstantinos
Mnevis
Model of a palette ,
Models of axe-heads,
houses, 1 80 ; wooden
Moeris
Monotheism
... 99
35> 27i
••• 235
62, 166
... 16
7 ; of
... 279
... 94
... 125
t9
62
43
36
237
l'AGK
Monroe, Rev. I. Vi re, the
gift of
Moon, ape of
Mortar rake
Mortars
Moii his in terra-cotta
Moyses, 232 ; son of Severus, 233
Mullers ... ... 1 7, 276
Mummies of Roman ladies 3
Mummy bandages in linen, 23;
shirts. 38, 40; wheat ... 36
Musical instruments ... 173
Mut, 30, 32, 136, 142, 150, 160,
161, 162; figures of ... 137
Mut-a 82
Mutkhaneferu ... ... 245
Mut-khau-neferu ... ... 281
Mycerinus ••• ... ... 189
Myers, Mr. Walter, the gifts
of 238, 278
Nails, bronze
Nakada
Nares
Nar-mer
Neb-Amen, stele of
Nebi, box of
Neb-kha-u ...
Nebseni, 251 ; cone of,
fly-flapper of
Necho, Pharaoh {i.e., Nekau or
Necho II.), 3^, 208, 251, 262;
draughtsman of ... ... 181
Necklaces of stone and
porcelain beads ... 213,221
••• 43
58, 118
75
49
82
116
248
108;
272
INDEX.
295
PAGE
Nectanebus I. ... ... 209
Nectanebus II. ... 183, 209
Needles ... ... 22, 25
„ for stibium tubes ... 275
Nefer amulet ... ..- 211
Nefer-ari-ka-Ra ... ... 57
Nefer- Aten .. . ... ... 30
Nefer-heb-f, cone of ... 108
Nefer-hetep, box of ...113
Nefer-hi, figure of ... ... 90
Nefer-ka-Ra, King 198
Nefer-nefer-ab-Ra- em - khut,
figure of... .. ... 104
Nefert-ari ... ... ... 190
Nefer -Tern, 130,
237
figures of
*33> 134
Nefert-ith ...
... 259
Neferti-ith ...
... 203
Nefert-iti, Queen ..
n
Neharina ...
... 190
Nehebka ... 195, 256. 257
Nehebkau 155, 156
Nehemauait 151, 155, 167
Nehems-Bast ... ... 74
Nehems-Ra-taui ... 78, 79
Nehems-Ra-taui, stele of ... 78
Nehi 45
Neith, goddess, 125, 151, 153,
i54, i56- 257
Nekau II. (Pharaoh Necho)
33, 262
Nekhebet 32, 151
Nekht-f-Mut, stele of 74, 83
Nekht-Heru-heb 185
Nemareth ... ... ... 216
PAGE
Nen-tcheser-ka, cone of ... to8
Neolithic flints 58
Nephthys, 122, 143; figures of.
147
Nero 19
Nes-Hathor, stele of ... 74
Nes-Heru, stele of ... ... 81
Nesi-Khensu ... 256, 259
Nesi-neb-taui, box of -..113
Nesi-ta-neb-asher ... 180, 259
Nes-Mut 71
Nes-pa-sefi ... ... ... 78
Nes-p-sekher, stele of ... 76
Nes-Ptah 81
Nes-pua, stele of . . . ... 81
Nes-qa-shuti, stele of ... 83
Nes-ther-en-Maat, stele of... 83
Nesui, stele of ... ... 84
New Year bottles ... ... 263
Niharau ... ... ... 234
Nile-god, the 157
Nile-gods ... ... ... 176
Nimrud ... ... •••275
Nini 75
Nit-hetep 50
Northampton, Marquess of,
gift of 262
Nub-em-tekh ... ... 250
Nubians ... ... ... 282
Nub-Set 200
Nut 122
Oars, funeral
... 27
Obelisk, House of...
... 124
Obsidian ...
••• 35
2i)(i
[NDEX.
P IGH
Ochres
-75
Palm-tax
!i). 20
Omega
240
Pamai ... ... 19
-\ 207
Onias
26 1
Pa mer ab.au, palette of
• '5
Onouris
<5<>
Pa nemem ...
.115
( Orders, official, drafl of
'4
I'a iics, stele of
. 80
( )siris, the man god,
$4,
1 i',,
Paniel
. 242
1 20, 1 22, 140 ; figures of,
1 4 5
Pankhi
. 207
Osiris, the .Moon ...
■45
Panokh
[9
Osiris-Apis...
62
Panopolis ... ... 2.}, 3
h 236
Osiris-khent-Amenti
37
Panubdis ...
. [9
Osiris-Serapis
267
Paoni
1 3, 1 |
Osorkon I
206
Papas
• 232
Osorkon II.
2C6
Paperpa
. 228
Ostraka inscribed in Greek,
18-
Papnoute ... ... 23
3, 235
20 ; inscribed in Copt
c...
229
Papyrus, blank rolls of
16
Ostrich eggs
68
Papyrus-sceptre amulet
. 21 r
Ouanafre ...
233
Papyrus shoes
3
Ounaref
232
Pa-Ramcssu
Pa-ren-iut* r
• 259
. 266
Paam
234
Pasenis
• 19
Pa-ari-su, figure of...
104
Pa-shere-Ast, stele of
. 81
Paatenu
273
Pa-shetu, figure of...
. 98
Pa-Bast
154
Pashumen, staff of
. 26
Paesis
19
Pastry
• 36
Pa-hap-ha-Menthu, stele
of
82
Pata-Amen, stele of
• 75
Pahom
233
Patermoute
• 233
Paint brushes, grinder,
and
Payni
• 17
pots ... ... 16
47,
109
Pearson, Sir W.
. 69
Pakhanes ...
18
Pectorals ...
■ *97
Pakhompauonnophis
19
Pef-a-Heru ...
• 185
Pako
235
Pef-en-Bastet, stele of
. 80
Palaeolithic flints ...
53
Pegasus
• 238
Palettes
1,
I-16
Pekha-Khensu
. 78
Pallas
233
Pekhar-en-Khensu . . .
• 7«
Palm fossil
ic8
Pckhar-Khensu
. 185
INDEX.
297
PAGE
PAGE
Pekysis
17
Pharmouthi
... 19
Pen-nubu, stele of
76
Phenophis ...
... 19
Pen-sen eb ...
197
Philae
... I20
Pens, reed ...
l6
Philotheos ...
••• 233
Pe-nub
34
Phcenissae of Euripides
... 18
Peperporos...
233
Phoenix god
... 168
Pepi I., Meri-Ra,
57,
189,
J99>
Phoibamon
••• 235
248,
249
Photinos
... 232
Pepi II. ... 15,
189,
!99,
249
Piaai
... 196
Per-ab-sen ...
54,
198
Piankhi II
... 23
Per-pa-Ra ...
26
Pibeseth
-•• 154
Perring, Mr. J. S.,
the
gifts
Pilgrim flasks
... 270
of
267
Pillars
... 277
Pertinax
20
Pillow amulet
... 211
Per-Uatchet
...
152
Pillows ... ... 69
-72, 226
Pesenthios ...
232
Pinetchem ...
253, 259
Peseshet
81
Pins, Roman
... 25
Peshken amulet
212
Piob
••• 233
Pesynthios ...
231,
232
Pisrael
■■■ 235
Peta-Amen...
184
Plaques, bronze
... 44
Peta-Amen-neb-nest-taui, 77,
78;
Plumes amulet
... 211
bucket of, 185 ;
stele
of...
35
Plummet amulet ...
... 212
Peta-Amen- Ra- neb-Uast,
Plunkett, Col. G. T.
... 107
stele of ...
82
Pocock, C. Innes, Esq.
... 190
Petals, stele of
76
Polishers, stone and schist, 8,
Peta-Asar . . .
83
43, 44
Peta-Ast ...
78
Poll-tax
... 19
Peta-Khensu, stele
of
83
Polytheistic figures
... 165
Petorzmethes
19, 20
Porcelain objects, 222-:
25, 254-
Petrie, Professor, g
ifts by 33,
270
262
Petrified wood
277
Port dues ...
... 19
Petsonkhos
J9
Predynastic antiquities
... 46
Phamenoth
13
Price, Mr. F. G. Hilton,
the
Phamin Ermont
233
gifts of ...
252, 277
Phanophis ...
...
20
Priest-kings
... 259
298
INDIA'.
PAGE
Protome ... ... ... 21
Prudhoe, Lord, the gifts of 267
Psalms, extract from ... 232
Psametis ... ... ... 19
Psammetichus I., 34, 43, 192,
208, 220
II., 103, 104,
192, 208, 262
„ III. ... 208
„ sistrum of... 175
1\m mtek-senb, figure of ... 104
Psemthek-sa-Net, figure of 105
Psenetchem-ab ... ... 225
Psyche ... ... ... 230
Ptah, 32, 33, 34, 120, 125, 130;
figures of ... 131-133
Ptah-em-sa-f-senb-tefi 92, 94
Ptah-meri ... ... ... 1 01
Ptah-mes ... 42, 134, 217, 250
Ptah Seker ... ... ... 130
Ptah-Seker-Asar, 62, 130, 131,
132, 262 : figures of ... 135
Ptah Tanen ... 130, 133
Ptolemy II. ... ... 17
III 218
,, Alexander ... 268
,, Soter ... ... 62
Pugillaria ... ... ... 18
Puher ... ... ... 185
Pulley 45
Pygmy 131
Pyramid, the Great ... 41
Qa, K.in<
Qaha
52
82
PAGE
Qebh
••• 53
Qebhsennuf
144, >4r>
Qebkhu
... 81
Qeresa,
stele of
... 81
Qetesh
... 165
Quiver
21
Rfi, 122
; the sun-god
, 122 ; aegis
of, 34
; figures of
... 129
Ragauel
... 242
Ra-Heru-khuti, figure
of, 3 2, I24,
13°
Ra-ka-an
kh
••• 237
Ram, mummy of ...
62, 66
„ of Mendes . . .
... 167
,, the sacred ...
46, 47
Ra-meri,
palette of
... 15
Ra-mes,
a priest
... 185
Rameses I.
191, 203
>)
II., 191,
203, 251 ;
figure of,
280 ; head
of, 10 1,
172; relief
of, 12 ; brick of, 267;
shells of,
175; wars
of
... 281
is
III. 15
2, 204, 250
5)
IV. 15
2, 204, 250
!)
V.
... 205
>J
VI.
... 205
),
VII.
... 205
J5
VIII. ...
192, 205
))
IX.
... 205
))
X.
... 205
))
XI.
... 205
»)
XII.
... 205
INDEX.
299
PAGE
PAGE
Rameses XIII.
... 2o6
Sabaoth
24I-243
Ra-neb, King
■■• 53
Sabinus
... 19
Ra-neferu ...
... 218
Sahura
[89, I98, 248
Ra-sekhem-seuatch-taui
axe-
Saipem (?) ...
3
handle of
... 26
Sakhomneus
... 19
Razors (?) ...
271, 274
Salt, Mr. H.
... 217
Re, King
... 49
Salutarius ...
19
Receipts
... 18
Sandals
3
Red Sea
... 275
Sa-nekht
54
Reed arrows
10
Sa-pekha
103
„ pens
... 16
Sarabit al-Khadnu .
256
„ pen-cases
16, 17
Sargon of Agade .
48
Renenet
i5T> r52
Satapa, box of
IJ3
Rennut
... 228
Satet
163
Renpit, goddess
... 163
Sati
32, 163
Ren-senb, figure of
... 98
Satpi, box of
113
Rera
... 70
Sat-Sebek, Queen .
... 190
Rere, cone of
... 108
Saw
4i
Reru
... 195
Saw blade in flint .
59
Re-shat-pet...
... 280
Scabbard, wooden .
8
Reshnes
... 216
Scale drawings
10
Reshpu
164, 165
Scales, box for
16
Re-stau
... 112
Scarab, glass
34
Resurrection
131, 189
Scarabs
187-197
Rhyton
• •• 257
Sceptre
26
Rings
216 ff.
School exercises
.. 10, 18, 235
Romula
... 242
Scimitar
10
Ruau, figure of
... 98
Scorpion
68, 167
Rufonius ...
... 19
Scrapers
44, 59
Rumosh
••• 233
Scribes, palettes ot
... 15
Ru-nefer
... 193
Seals, clay ...
16
Seankh-Amen-qen,
figure of 97
Sa, goddess
I39> J4°
Seaa-kheperu-Ra
203
Sa-Amen, 258; palette of... 16
Sabaco ... ... ... 207
Seb
i36>
137
Sebek, 66 158; prayer to 16
30C
IM I \.
PAOl
PAGE
Sebek Ra ...
... 67
Senemout ...
20
Sebek-em sa-f I. 70,
200, 2 1 7
Senphatres ...
'7
II. ...
... 200
Senpsaeris ...
19
Sebek hetep I.
... 200
Sept
1 1-
II. ...
n;o, 200
Seqenen Ra 1.
•'7
201
III. ...
190, 200
II.
2or
IV. ...
... 200
III.
201
V. ...
... 200
Serapeum ...
62
,, a priest
... 14
Seraphim ...
40
,, frescoes of
21
Serapis ... 62,
1 20,
268,
269
Sebek-mes, cone of
... 108
Serqet
35
Sebek-neferu
... 190
Se-sekhem-ab
54
Sebek-neferu-Ra ...
... 200
Sesheta, goddess
16,
*39,
140
Sebek-nckht, statue of, 5
2 ; figure
Set, 122, 143 ; figures <
jf ...
i47
of
... 96
Set-animal ...
166
Sehetep-Khensu, stele 0
f... 79
Set-ari-ba-ur
76
Seker, 131 ; figures of,
1 34 ; as
Seti I., 15, 37, 191,
203,
262;
vase
Osiris
... 132
of, 255 ; ushabt
figure of
259
Sekhet, 130; figures (if
••• *33
Seti II.
162,
203,
256
Sekhet Mast Ra
... 242
Seti-thi-aa-pehti-neb-pet
the
Sekhet-hetep
... 141
god
76
Sekhet-hetepu
... 126
Set-Nekht ...
204
Selq
... 68
Seton-Karr, Mr.
w.
II..
Selqel
142, T56
flints given by
60
Semempses...
... 52
Set-rumi, figure of
92
Semerkha ...
... 52
Severus, son of Dionysios...
233
Semneh
... 265
Shabaka
192,
207,
250
Semti 51, 52, 120,
194, 198
Shabataka ...
162,
207
Sen, King ...
... 52
Shashanq I.
192,
206,
260
„ Canopic jar-box of
... 114
„ II.
206
Senb-f
... 94
„ III. .
206
Seneb, amulet of ...
!75> T76
„ iv.
207
Seneferef-I\a
... 23
Sheep, skull of
62
Seneferka ...
... 215
Shells inscribed w
th royal
Seneferu
... 198
names
J73
INDEX.
30I
PAGE
PAGE
Shemsu Heru
... 128
Sothis
I42
Shenoute ...
••• 233
Souai
234
Shep-en-Apt
I92, 27O
Souchos
66
158
Sheps
... 256
Souloumon Mengera
232
Shepset-aru-ru
... 73
Souriel
242
Shepset-Aset-urt
... 8l
Sow...
167
Sheps-her-ab-Ast
... 79
Sparrow-Simpson, The
Rev.
Shepu-en-Ast
... 74
W. J., the gift of
6
Shishak ...
192,
2 16, 218,
Spatulas
41
220
Spear heads
7,
8, 9
Shlout(?) ...
••• 233
Sphinx, the
165
Shoes
5
Spindle-whorls
22, 2
5. 47
Shovel for altar
... 184
Spindles
22, 25
Shrewmouse
... 166
Spoons ... 173
176,
177
Shu, 135; figures
of
... 136
Stamps, wooden
109
Sickle blade
... 41
Standards, ceremonial
9
Sickles
... 41
Staves, ceremonial...
26
Silenus
... 230
Stela;, sepulchral ...
73
Silk, yellow
... 41
Steps, amulet of ...
224
Sion
... 234
Stibium pots
271
Sistra
... 174
Stole, embroidered
24
Skin of gazelle
6
Stools, folding and 1
vork-
Slab for grinding
paint
... 17
men's
225,
278
Sling bullet
9
Strabo
39
,, stones
... 48
Strainer
184,
441
Sma, King ...
... 50
Strap, leather
10
„ amulet
... 212
Stn'gil
43
Smith, Mrs. Eustace,
the
Studs
275
gift of ...
... 191
Sudan
282
Snake's head amulet
... 210
Sun-city
128
Snakes, mummies
of
... 67
» egg
136
Soknopaios...
... 67
,, worship of
121
Solomon
... 242
Sword-blade
8
Sosipatria . . .
... 242
Syracuse
16
Soter, ushabti figure of
... 261
Syria, Northern
21
302
INDKX.
PAGB
l'AGK
Taaibis
17
Tchet-Tehuti-aufVankh,
stele of,
Ta bak en EChensu ...
77
76 ; statue of
... 107
Table, 225 ; of offerings
^y,
Tear bottles
••• 35
three-legged
228
Tefnut, 122, [35; figures of, 136
Taeouobsis...
17
,, Queen
... 270
Tali arc]
192
Tehuti-hetep
... 276
Ta-heb, stele of
77
Tehuti-nefer
••• 35
Tahpanhes ...
32
. 43
Tehuti-sat, shroud of
... 23
Tahrq (Tirhakah) ...
207
Tell Defna
... 32
Taiau-Khrat
83
„ el-Amarna
... 124
Ta khenen-nu, stele of
77
„ el-Yahudiyyeh,
tiles
Takureheb...
84
from
... 261
Tanen
131
Tell-Gemayemi
3°, 44
Ta-qes, stele of
82
Tern 121, 122, 125,
130, 262
Ta-sheret-en-Mehet, stele
of
75
Temu 121, 122, 125,
130, 262
Tat-Ast
185
Ten, King ...
... 51
Tathautis ...
17
Tesserse for mummies
17, 18
Ta-uaru
80
Tet, the
... 141
Ta-urt ... 33, 35^
Ih
157
„ amulet
... 210
Tcha, King
5°
Teta
... 248
Tchabari ...
84
Teta-khart, figure of
... 96
Tcha-en-ret
81
Teta-sheret, figure of
... 96
Tcha-Heru-ta
262
Tetau
... 264
Tchai, figure of
96
Tetkara
... 198
Tchanehebu
2 59
Tetthi
... 195
Tcha-set-hein, stele of
73
Thatrea
20
Tche-hra, box of ...
112
Theano
... 17
Tcheme
231
Theatre tickets
... 179
Tches-Amsu
225
Thebnesta, stele of
... 83
Tchesen ... 54, 56, 1
58,
225
Thekeleth I.
103, 206
Tchet-Ast-ari-ast ...
82
II.
... 206
Tchet-Bast, stele of
74
Theodora ...
... 236
Tchet-hra, stele of...
82
Theodosius the Great
... 120
Tchet - Menthu - auf - ant
.h,
Theshepet ...
... 83
stele of ...
75
Thes-mut-per
... 81
INDEX.
303
PAGE
PAGE
Theta
28l
Tuamutef ...
144,
I46
Thetui
113
Tuat
126
Theudora ...
236
Tui, wife of Rameses II. 17,
2 04
Thi, Queen
190, 249
254
Tunf-pa-nefer, stele of
S3
Thoth
3, 32> J38
139
Tununa, a scribe ...
J5
Thoth, month of ...
20
Tuphion
17
Thothmes I.,
43, 202 j
arick
Tutankh-Amen
203,
273
of
207
Tweezers ... <•• 3^
j 44>
274
Thothmes II.
...
202
Tybi
20
Thothmes III
., 202, 250;
axe-
Tyrannos ...
19
head of, 6
; brick of,
267 ;
glass vase c
>f, 34 ; scale draw-
ing of
II
Uaai, palette of
16
Thothmes IV.
202
Uah-ab-Ra, stelae of
80, :
Thothmes, a governor of the
Uah-ab-Ra-meri-Ptah
280
Thebaid ...
12
Uatchet 125, 152, 153,
154,
167
Thoueris ...
33, 157,
259
Uatchkara ...
190
Thununa ...
258
Unas ... 189,
198,
247
Thureiel
242
Un-nefer
237,
238
Thuthu, wife
of the scribe
Urseus
167
Ani
27,
226
Ur-hekau ...
265
Tigris
275
Ur-hekau instrument
45
Tirhakah ...
44, 192, 207,
280
Urt-hekau ...
J55
Titus
19
Urt-nefert, figure of
99
Tnouba
232
Uru, figure of
95
Toilet-box ...
226,
277
User-a-harua, stele of
78
,, objects
271
Userkaf
189,
198
Tools, models
of
44
Usertsen I. 13, 175, 189,
r99>
249
Tortoises ...
...
46
„ II.
189,
199
Toys
180
„ III.
189,
199
Trade tax ...
20
Ushabtiu figures ...
112
Trajan
J9
Usr, figure of
91
Trap
42
Usr-en-Ra ...
I99,
245
Tree-trunk . . .
...
277
Usr-Hat, figure of ...
97
Trinket-box
228
Utchat-Amen-mes . . .
74
3Q4
[ND] \.
PAGl
PAGE
Utchat amulet
_> | j
Wheat, crushed ... ... 36
Utchat Heru resenet, figure
Wheel of a cart ... ... 1 10
of
.05
Wig 35
n box 35
Vases, funeral
243
Wilkinson, Sir J. < i. 189, 267
Venus Anadyomene
*79
Wine strainer ... ... 1 •'-'• 1
Vespasian ...
19
Wood, petrified ... ... 277
Victor, Apa
231
Wool-combs ... 22, 25
Victor, a priest
232.
2 33
World-tree ... ... ... 2 1 1
„ Georgios
234
Writing exercise in Greek.. 231
,, Kyriakos
234
Vulture
Vyse, Col. Howard,
the
167
Xerxes ... ... ... 208
gifts of ...
267
Vokes ... ... 22, 26
Wadi Hammamat ...
275
,, Shekh
60
Zacharias ... ... ... 235
Wax magical figure
20
Zael 235
Wax-tablets
18
Zebede ... ... ... 233
Weapons in iron and bronze,
5I1.;
Zeus Serapis ... ... 267
robbery of
I 2
Zminis ... ... ... 17
Weights ... 238, 268,
270
-77
Zodiac, signs of the ... 229
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